Commonwealth v. Monaco

WIEAND, Judge:

During the early morning of June 13, 1979, Floyd Monaco shot and killed Albert Izzo, a plainclothes state policeman. Monaco entered a plea of guilty to murder generally and, after hearing before the Honorable J. Quint Salmon, specially presiding, was adjudged guilty of murder in the first degree. A subsequent motion to withdraw the plea of guilty was denied, and Monaco was sentenced to prison for life. On direct appeal from the judgment of sentence, Monaco contends (1) that the trial court erred in denying his motion to withdraw the plea of guilty; (2) that the evidence was…