Commonwealth v. Moore

OPINION OF THE COURT

ROBERTS, Justice.

Appellant, Estie Moore, was convicted by a court sitting without a jury of murder of the third degree and sentenced to a term of three to ten years imprisonment. On appeal to this Court, appellant contends that the evidence establishes only that appellant and the victim were involved in a fistfight and thus is insufficient to support a conviction of murder of the third degree. We disagree and affirm judgment of sentence. *

Appellant’s sufficiency claim relies on the basic principle, reflected by cases of this Court, that:

“Every death resulting from a fist…