Commonwealth v. Diggs

GORDON, J.,

This is a post-trial motion filed by the defendant William Diggs challenging the sufficiency of the evidence at trial to sustain a guilty verdict to a conviction of aggravated assault, a felony of the second degree, alleging that the Commonwealth failed to establish that a screwdriver was a deadly weapon pursuant to the statutory laws of Pennsylvania.

The defendant was tried on June 27, 1991. Diggs waived his right to a jury trial. He was charged on the bill of information no. 2398, January Term, 1991 with recklessly endangering another person.1 The defendant was charged with…