Third-Degree Murder and Endangering Welfare of a Child • Sufficiency of Evidence • Prior Bad Acts Evidence • Merger for Sentencing

Commonwealth v. Golphin, PICS Case No. 17-0795 (Pa. Super. May 8, 2017) Stevens, J. (31 pages).

Evidence of defendant’s prior abuse of victim and family members was admissible where the acts constituted part of a chain of events that formed the history and natural development of the case. Judgment of sentence affirmed.