Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Ressler

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided December 30, 1982No. 32PublishedCited by 8 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BECK, Judge:

This is a direct appeal from the judgment of sentence entered against Appellant by the Court of Common Pleas of Lebanon County. Two claims are made.

One is a boilerplate claim that the verdict was “contrary to the evidence, contrary to the weight of the evidence, contrary to the law, and whether the evidence was insufficient to sustain the verdict.” Taking this as a general claim of insufficiency of evidence, we have carefully reviewed the trial transcript. The two Commonwealth witnesses who established Appellant’s guilt had been charged as co-conspirators. They unambiguously…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. HamiltonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1972
  2. Commonwealth v. MitchellSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1977
  3. Commonwealth v. CohenSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1978
  4. Commonwealth v. MorganSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1979
  5. Commonwealth v. McCaffertySuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1976

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3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. GorhamSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1985
  2. Commonwealth v. BennettSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1983
  3. Commonwealth v. PurnellSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1986
  4. Commonwealth v. TaylorSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1985
  5. Commonwealth v. BennettSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1983

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