Commonwealth v. Gonzales

HUDOCK, Judge:

This is an appeal from the judgment of sentence imposed upon Appellant after he was convicted, at the conclusion of a non-jury trial, of murder in the third degree.1 Timely filed post-verdict motions were denied by the trial court and Appellant was sentenced to the mandatory minimum of life imprisonment as required by 42 Pa.C.S. § 9715 (Purdon 1982) (Life imprisonment for homicide). This appeal followed in which Appellant raises three instances of trial court error. We affirm.

Appellant first claims that the evidence was insufficient to sustain his third degree murder conviction…