Commonwealth v. Burwell

OPINION BY

LAZARUS, J.:

Ronald Burwell appeals from his judgment of sentence imposed after a jury found him guilty of aggravated assault1 (causes serious bodily injury) for twice striking the victim, a caretaker at the Erie County Amtrak station, in the face and wrist with an electric guitar.2 The victim suffered a broken wrist and cracked eye socket; he required seven stitches as a result of the incident and suffered numbness on the left side of his face for two months following the assault. At the time of trial he was still suffering facial tenderness.

The Honorable Shad Connelly applied the…