Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. DiGiacomo
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided October 3, 1975No. 85PublishedCited by 73 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*452OPINION OF THE COURT
NIX, Justice.
This direct appeal from a conviction of murder in the second degree results from an altercation which occurred in a tavern in Allegheny County during which the proprietor was fatally shot in the back seven or eight times by appellant. Appellant presses two assignments of error to justify the reversal of the judgment of sentence and the grant of a new trial. We do not agree and now affirm.
On October 28, 1974, appellant, Mario DiGiacomo, and his friend, John Hruska, went to the “Some Place Else” Tavern owned by Raymond Anderson, the victim. During the course of…
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