Commonwealth v. Wade

OPINION

POMEROY, Justice.

Appellant, C. Alton Wade, Jr., was convicted by a jury of voluntary manslaughter. Post-trial motions were denied and Wade was thereafter sentenced to a term of imprisonment of five to ten years. This direct appeal followed,1 in which appellant raises several trial errors deemed to require a new trial. For the reasons stated hereafter, we believe these arguments are without merit. On the record before us, however, we are unable to resolve appellant’s further charge that he was denied his constitutional right to effective representation by a lawyer at trial. Accordingly,…