Commonwealth v. Segers

OPINION OF THE COURT

POMEROY, Justice.

The appellant, Garnie Segers, was convicted by a jury of murder in the first degree and, after denial of post-trial motions, was sentenced to life imprisonment. This direct appeal followed.

The evidence introduced by the Commonwealth at trial was virtually uncontradieted. It established that on the night of December 19, 1971, the appellant shot and killed one Leonard Wilcox as Wilcox was riding as a guest passenger in an automobile driven by one Robert Fuller on Lancaster Avenue in the City of Philadelphia. Also in the car was Segers’ common-law wife,…