Forbes v. Commonwealth

COLE, Judge.

James Leroy Forbes was convicted in a bench trial of involuntary manslaughter arising out of a traffic accident. On appeal, he contends the evidence was insufficient to support the conviction and that his sentence was excessive and improp er because it was based on stale and unsubstantiated prior convictions. We agree that the evidence was insufficient to support the conviction and reverse. Because we reverse the conviction on the sufficiency issue, we need not decide the other issue.

FACTS

The evidence is essentially undisputed. On March 24,1996, at about 4:00 a.m., the victim’s…