Commonwealth v. Plank

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Commonwealth v. Plank

445 A.2d 491, 498 Pa. 144, 1982 Pa. LEXIS 493

CourtSupreme Court of Pennsylvania

DecidedMay 21, 1982

Docket471

StatusPublished

Cited by28 cases

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Commonwealth v. Plank, 445 A.2d 491, 498 Pa. 144, 1982 Pa. LEXIS 493 (Pa. 1982).

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Opinion

OPINION

LARSEN, Justice.

On September 18, 1979, a jury convicted appellant, Richard Plank, of voluntary manslaughter and criminal trespass. Appellant was sentenced to consecutive prison terms of four and one half to ten years for voluntary manslaughter and six months to eight years for criminal trespass. Appellant filed a motion to modify the judgments of sentence that was denied by the trial court. This direct appeal followed.

Appellant contends that the judgments of sentence imposed on him by the trial court were excessive.

The imposition of a sentence is vested in the discretion of the trial court, and will not be disturbed absent a manifest abuse of that discretion. Commonwealth v. Martin, 466 Pa. 118, 351 A.2d 650 (1976).

Appellant’s sentences did not exceed the statutory limits and the trial court complied with all of the other sentencing requirements set forth by the Court in Commonwealth v. Edrington, 490 Pa. 251, 416 A.2d 455 (1980). There was no abuse of discretion. Thus, appellant’s contention that the judgments of sentence were excessive is without merit.

The judgments of sentence is affirmed.

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