Commonwealth v. Cargo

OPINION OF THE COURT

O’BRIEN, Chief Justice.

This is a direct appeal from the judgment of sentence of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia. Appellant, Kevin Cargo, was convicted in a non-jury trial of murder of the first degree 1 and possession of an instrument of crime, 2 and sentenced to life imprisonment and a consecutive sentence of two and one-half to five years. We affirm.

The evidence presented by the Commonwealth established the following. 3 At approximately four a. m. on May 8,1977, appellant was sitting in a taxicab he had stolen the previous evening, waiting for the victim,…