Commonwealth v. Singh

I must dissent from the decision of this Court to dismiss this matter as improvidently granted. Appellant Girlie Singh was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and possession of an instrument of crime following the shooting death of her husband, Frankie Singh. Throughout the trial of the case, the Appellant had maintained that the killing was done in self-defense after the deceased threatened to harm her with a knife.

We granted allocatur to address the Appellant’s contention that trial counsel was ineffective for failing to request an instruction to the jury advising that prior acts of spousal…