Case Name: COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania v. Louis SMITH, Appellant
Court: Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1979-06-01
Citations: 266 Pa. Super. 501
Docket Number: No. 44 Special Transfer Docket
Parties: COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania v. Louis SMITH, Appellant.
Judges: Before CERCONE, President Judge, and ROBERTS and LIPEZ, JJ.
Reporter: Pennsylvania Superior Court Reports
Volume: 266
Pages: 501–503

Head Matter:
405 A.2d 931
COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania v. Louis SMITH, Appellant.
Superior Court of Pennsylvania.
Argued May 8, 1979.
Decided June 1, 1979.
Mitchell S. Lipschutz, Philadelphia, for appellant.
Ronald Castille, Assistant District Attorney, Philadelphia, for Com., appellee.
Before CERCONE, President Judge, and ROBERTS and LIPEZ, JJ.
Justice Samuel J. Roberts of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and Judge Abraham H. Lipez of the Court of Common Pleas of Clinton County, Pennsylvania, are sitting by designation.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Appellant was convicted, after a non-jury trial, of murder in the third degree and possession of a prohibited offensive weapon. He was sentenced to a prison term of eight to twenty years on the murder conviction, and three years probation on the weapons offense to run consecutively.
Appellant raises five assignments of error, all of which save sufficiency of the evidence have been waived by his failure to state them specifically in post-trial motions. Commonwealth v. Hagans, 483 Pa. 415, 397 A.2d 412 (1979); Commonwealth v. Waters, 477 Pa. 430, 384 A.2d 234 (1978); Commonwealth v. Blair, 460 Pa. 31, 331 A.2d 213 (1975); Pa.R.Crim.P. 1123(a).
Appellant asserts that the Commonwealth's evidence was "devoid of credibility." It is, however, for the trier of fact to decide the issue of credibility, Commonwealth v. London, 461 Pa. 566, 572, 337 A.2d 549, 552 (1975), and the trial court obviously chose to believe the Commonwealth's version of the facts. The evidence, viewed most favorably to the Commonwealth, see Commonwealth v. Lowe, 460 Pa. 357, 333 A.2d 765 (1975), shows that at approximately 7:15 P.M., on June 30, 1976, appellant, carrying a leather case containing a shotgun, approached the victim, who was sitting at the corner of Fifteenth and South Streets in Philadelphia. Appellant fired the weapon at the victim, striking him in the head and neck and thereby causing his death. The evidence is clearly sufficient to support the verdict.
Judgment of sentence affirmed.