Case Name: COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania v. Tyrone BURGESS, Appellant
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1983-01-31
Citations: 500 Pa. 224
Docket Number: No. 80-3-517
Parties: COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania v. Tyrone BURGESS, Appellant.
Judges: Before ROBERTS, C.J., and NIX, LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT, HUTCHINSON and ZAPPALA, JJ.
Reporter: Pennsylvania State Reports
Volume: 500
Pages: 224–225

Head Matter:
455 A.2d 631
COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania v. Tyrone BURGESS, Appellant.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
Submitted Dec. 8, 1982.
Decided Jan. 31, 1983.
Gilbert J. Scutti, Philadelphia (court-appointed), for appellant.
Robert B. Lawler, Chief, Appeals Div., Asst. Dist. Atty., Steven Cooperstein, Asst. Dist. Atty., for appellee.
Before ROBERTS, C.J., and NIX, LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT, HUTCHINSON and ZAPPALA, JJ.

Opinion:
OPINION
LARSEN, Justice.
In this direct appeal from his judgments of sentence, appellant raises four issues: 1) the suppression court erred in failing to suppress his confession; 2) the lower court erred in failing to sustain an objection to the prosecutor's summation; 3) the lower court erred in instructing the jury that it could infer malice and specific intent to kill from the use of a deadly weapon on a vital part of another's body; and 4) the lower court erred in imposing consecutive sentences for his convictions of possessing an instrument of crime and murder of the first degree. We have reviewed the record and find these contentions to be without merit.
Accordingly, the judgments of sentence are affirmed.