Commonwealth v. Potts

BECK, Judge:

On appeal appellant first questions whether his conviction for murder of the first degree based upon an accomplice liability theory was proper when it was based upon wholly circumstantial evidence. The second, third, and, fourth assignments of error charge that trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object to the Commonwealth’s proceeding on an accomplice liability theory, for failing to preserve the objection that evidence of defendant’s prior bad acts should not have been admitted into evidence, and for failing to impeach a Commonwealth witness.

This is a direct appeal by…