Commonwealth v. Metzger

WIEAND, Judge:

In this direct appeal from the judgment of sentence imposed for murder of the first degree, burglary and conspiracy, appellant contends that his trial counsel was' constitutionally ineffective in seven separate instances. 1 We disagree and affirm the judgment of sentence.

On September 25, 1974, the remains of Martha Metzger, who had been reported missing from her Delaware County home on August 18, 1974, were found in a field behind a farm house in Farnham, New York. The cause of death was determined to be suffocation and strangulation caused by a cloth which had been stuffed into…