Commonwealth v. Curran

OLSZEWSKI, Judge.

John Henry Curran, II, appeals from the November 26, 1996, judgment of sentence imposed after a jury found him guilty of driving while under the influence of alcohol, 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 3731(a)(1), and homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence, 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 3735. After a careful review of the record, we affirm.

Sometime after 2:00 A.M. on the morning of January 21, 1996, Curran drove his Ford pickup truck across the center line of a two-lane highway and slammed head-on into an oncoming vehicle. The driver of the other vehicle was pronounced dead at the scene. Curran…