Commonwealth v. Rolan

OPINION BY

KELLY, J.:

¶ 1 Appellant, Florencio Rolan, appeals from the judgment of sentence entered in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas after a jury convicted him, for the second time, of first-degree murder and possession of an instrument of crime (PIC). We affirm.

¶ 2 On the evening of Friday, May 13, 1988, the victim, Paulino Santiago, and Robert 1 Aponte were selling marijuana near 17th and Wallace Streets in Philadelphia. Paulino’s brother, Francisco, and Appellant were nearby, among a crowd estimated at thirty to fifty people. Around 8:80 P.M. a driver pulled up to buy a…