Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Sheaff

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided August 28, 1987No. 27PublishedCited by 31 opinions

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…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. ColsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1985
  2. Commonwealth v. HolmesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1983
  3. Commonwealth v. MaxwellSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1984
  4. Commonwealth v. UpsherSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1982
  5. Commonwealth v. ColonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1972

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3Cited by31 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. MetzSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1993
  2. Commonwealth v. LeeSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1991
  3. Commonwealth v. HewettSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1988
  4. Commonwealth v. NelsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1989
  5. Commonwealth v. SopotaSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1991

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