Commonwealth v. Rabold

OPINION

Justice SAYLOR.

Appeal was allowed to consider a challenge to a jury instruction explaining the verdict of guilty but mentally ill.

By way of essential background, a verdict of guilty but mentally ill is authorized by Section 314 of the Crimes Code, as follows:(a) General rule. — A person who timely offers a defense of insanity in accordance with the Rules of Criminal Procedure may be found “guilty but mentally ill” at trial if the trier of facts finds, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the person is guilty of an offense, was mentally ill at the time of the commission of the offense and…