Commonwealth v. Crowson

Arriving home from work, Betty Harris discovered her basement in disarray, a television set and table lamp missing, and her babysitter, Theodore Williams, dead from gunshot wounds to the head. Subsequent police investigation uncovered the murder weapon, lamp, and television in appellant’s residence. He was convicted of burglary, robbery and murder of the first degree.

Appellant contends, inter alia, 1 that there was insufficient evidence to sustain the burglary conviction because there was no showing that appellant entered the Harris residence “with the intent to commit a crime therein,” 18…