Commonwealth v. Payne

HESTER, Judge:

Appellant was arrested on March 12, 1980, and charged with criminal homicide and violations of the Uniform Firearms Act.1 After a four-day trial, the jury returned a verdict of guilty of both third degree murder and the Uniform Firearms Act violations. The trial judge, upon consideration of motions for a new trial and/or in arrest of judgment, arrested judgment on the Uniform Firearms Act violations, but denied the motions as to the murder conviction. Appellant was thereafter sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than seven nor more than eighteen years incarceration.

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