Commonwealth v. Young

SCHILLER, Judge.

Circumstantial evidence, when properly marshalled, can be powerful enough to sustain the Commonwealth’s burden to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. While the lack of a weapon or other piece of evidence can often prove grist for novelists’ plots, in real life these deficiencies can be overcome by sufficient circumstantial proof of guilt.

FACTS:

On July 22, 1994, appellant, Allen C. Young, was in attendance at “dollar night” at a bar located in Conshohocken, Montgomery County. The victim in this ease, one Ranielle Ricard, was in attendance and, at one point during the night,…