Commonwealth v. Hall

OTT, J.,

This opinion is written in response to Darrick Hall’s statement of matters complained of on appeal. The appeal is an automatic direct appeal from the judgments of sentence of death imposed upon Hall by this Chester County Court of Common Pleas on October 29, 1994, in conformance with 42 *262Pa.C.S. §§722(4), 9711(h)(1) and Pa.R.A.P. 702(b) and 1941.

The sentence was imposed following the jury’s verdict that Hall had, beyond a reasonable doubt, committed murder in the first degree, and following a separate penalty phase of the trial. After the penalty phase, the jury found unanimously that…