Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Davis

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided April 22, 1983No. 1121PublishedCited by 23 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BECK, Judge:

Appellant, Charles Allen Davis, was convicted of robbery by a judge sitting non-jury. He filed timely post-trial motions and was sentenced to a period of incarceration of from two to six years.

Appellant’s first claim is that the lower court erred in finding that the Commonwealth had proven beyond a reasonable doubt that appellant was guilty of robbery. The test for evaluating that claim was recently reiterated by our Supreme Court in Commonwealth v. Lovette, 498 Pa. 665, 669, 450 A.2d 975, 977 (1982) (collecting cases): “[W]hether accepting as true all of the evidence reviewed in…

2Cases cited22 opinions

  1. Simmons v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. Commonwealth v. HubbardSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1977
  3. Commonwealth v. KloiberSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1954
  4. Commonwealth v. BlairSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1975
  5. Commonwealth v. LovetteSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1982

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3Cited by23 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. BraggSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2016
  2. Commonwealth v. OuchSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2018
  3. Commonwealth v. NelsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1990
  4. Commonwealth v. GroffSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1986
  5. Commonwealth v. NelsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1984

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