Commonwealth v. Wiggins

CAVANAUGH, Judge:

Appellant has been convicted of robbery and conspiracy and has received a three to ten year sentence. We are asked to decide: (1) whether the Court erred in not granting appellant’s motion for binding instructions; and whether it was error not to find the verdict against the weight of the evidence; (2) whether the court should have granted the language of certain of appellant’s points for charge on the defense of duress; and (3) whether the sentence is excessive in length.

Leroy Wiggins was tried before a jury in Mercer County. After the guilty verdict on October 10, 1978, the…