Commonwealth v. Sheaff
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
TAMILIA, Judge:
Appellant was found guilty by a jury of burglary and was sentenced to seven and one-half to fifteen years incarcera tion. This is an appeal from the judgment of sentence entered after denial of appellant’s post-trial motions.
We find no need to address appellant’s sufficiency of the evidence argument because appellant failed to properly preserve this issue for appellate review in his post-trial motions. In his post-trial motion, filed December 9, 1983, appellant framed the sufficiency of the evidence issue in “boilerplate” fashion, and thus did not preserve the issue for…
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