Commonwealth v. Morningwake

TAMILIA, Judge.

Dwayne M. Morningwake takes this appeal from judgment of sentence entered September 4, 1990, after a jury found him guilty of first degree murder, 1 robbery, 2 burglary 3 and conspiracy 4 to commit these three offenses. On June 18, 1988, the appellant, then fifteen years old, along with co-defendants 5 Miguel E. Yoder and Michael A. Lehman, allegedly stabbed to death Kwame Beatty, the appellant’s counselor at the York Children’s Home where he resided. During the penalty phase of the trial, the jury recommended a sentence of life imprisonment for the first degree murder…