Commonwealth v. Wright

¶ 1 Appellants, Leon F. Wright and Stephen Freeland, bring these appeals from their respective judgments of sentence, 1 which were imposed following their convictions by a jury of murder in the second degree under the pre-amended Crimes Code. 2 We affirm.

¶ 2 This case commenced in the summer of 1969, when on the night of July 18,1969, York City Police Officer Henry Schaad was wounded by gunfire while traveling through a predominantly African American neighborhood that was the scene of racial unrest. Two weeks thereafter, Officer Schaad died as a result of the gunshot wounds. At the time he…