Commonwealth v. Haywood

OPINION

POMEROY, Justice.

Appellant, William Haywood, was convicted by a jury of murder in the first degree, aggravated robbery, conspiracy and carrying a firearm on a public street without a license. After denying Haywood’s post-verdict motions, the court imposed sentence of life imprisonment for the murder conviction and ten to twenty years imprisonment for the robbery conviction, the sentences to run concurrently.1 This appeal from the murder conviction followed.2

Haywood’s arrest and the charges ultimately brought against him stemmed from the robbery and fatal shooting of one Roy Jordan, a…