Commonwealth v. Melton

The defendant appeals from his convictions of multiple offenses arising out of a drive-by shooting.1 The Commonwealth’s evidence tended to show that, during a drive-by incident, one of four occupants of a vehicle fired a single shot into another vehicle that also contained four occupants. The judge sentenced the defendant on the counts for unlawful pos*638session of a firearm and for the assaults to five consecutive terms.2 The defendant’s main contention on appeal is that three of his four assault convictions must be vacated because the evidence showed that the shooter intended to commit, at…