Commonwealth v. Shurgalla

WATKINS, Senior Judge:

This case comes to us on appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Schuylkill County and involves defendant-appellant’s contentions that the offenses of aggravated assault and attempted murder should have been merged by the trial court, and that the court erred when it applied the weapons enhancement provisions of the Crimes Code to the defendant’s sentence.

On July 27, 1986, the appellant shot his girlfriend in the back after she refused to continue seeing him. Appellant was charged with Criminal Attempt to Commit Murder, Aggravated Assault, Recklessly Endangering Another…