Commonwealth v. Kesting

O’BRIEN, Judge:

Appellant, Ronald Resting, was convicted by a jury of murder of the first degree and of robbery. Post-verdict motions were denied and appellant was sentenced to life imprisonment on the murder charge and to a term of ten to twenty years’ imprisonment for the robbery conviction, to be served consecutively to the life sentence.

The instant appeal arose out of the January 18, 1977, slaying of Barbara Hughes in Philadelphia. Appellant, the victim, and another woman, Judith Bristol, became acquaintances in 1976 in Napa, Cálifornia. The three travelled across the country in decedent’s…