Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Morton

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided July 28, 1986No. 02939PublishedCited by 15 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OLSZEWSKI, Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment of sentence. Appellant, Willie Morton, after a bench trial, was convicted of robbery, 1 criminal conspiracy, 2 simple assault, 3 and attempted theft. 4 Post-trial motions were denied, and appellant received a sentence of eight to twenty-three months’ imprisonment for robbery and a concurrent sentence for conspiracy. 5 The sole issue raised on appeal is whether the evidence presented at trial was sufficient to support a conviction on all four counts.

The test of sufficiency of the evidence is whether, viewing the evidence in the light most…

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2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. PittsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1979
  2. Commonwealth v. CookeSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1985
  3. Commonwealth v. StasiakSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1982
  4. Commonwealth v. AndersonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1979
  5. Commonwealth v. GilesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1983

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3Cited by15 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. JonesSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2005
  2. Commonwealth v. ThomasSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1988
  3. Commonwealth v. McKeeverSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1997
  4. Commonwealth v. HalleySuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2003
  5. Commonwealth v. Tau Kappa EpsilonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1989

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