Commonwealth v. Hubble

WIEAND, Judge:

On August 5, 1976, Mrs. Claire Kepner and her two small children were found murdered in their home near Muncy in Lycoming County. All had been shot with a .32 caliber gun, and the abdomen of one child had been repeatedly slashed with a knife. Robert Hubble was tried jointly with Milton Scarborough 1 and was found guilty of burglary, 2 robbery, 3 theft, 4 conspiracy 5 and three counts of murder in the first degree. 6 On direct appeal from judgments of sentence imposed after post verdict motions had been denied, Hubble asks that we review and find error in the trial court’s…