State v. Kopa

McHUGH, Justice.

This action is before this Court upon the appeal of Robert Kopa, appellant and defendant below, from his conviction in the Circuit Court of Hancock County for first degree murder. The appellant was convicted of committing such murder while in the commission of a burglary upon the home of the victim, Edna Virginia Karver, and was sentenced to life imprisonment with mercy. This Court has before it the petition for appeal, all matters of record and the briefs and oral argument of counsel.

The record indicates that in the early morning hours of September 15, 1981, at approximately…