Commonwealth v. Thomas

OPINION OF THE COURT

FLAHERTY, Justice.

Appellant, Jeff row Thomas, challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support his conviction of third degree murder, when death was caused by a single bare-fisted blow to the decedent’s face.

On June 23, 1978, Joe Humphrey, the victim, was eating and drinking with appellant, appellant’s two brothers, and four or five other people in the kitchen of a friend for a period of several hours in the afternoon. Humphrey, forty years old, six feet, one inch tall, weighing 175 pounds, had, years earlier, suffered an injury to his neck when he was struck in the…