# Commonwealth v. Ferguson

> Superior Court of Pennsylvania · July 24, 1981 · 289 Pa. Super. 163

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9634542

## Case

- **Full name:** COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania v. Guy Eugene FERGUSON, Appellant
- **Court:** Superior Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** July 24, 1981
- **Citations:** 289 Pa. Super. 163; 432 A.2d 1103; 1981 Pa. Super. LEXIS 3102
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Wickersham
- **Judges:** Wickersham, Hoffman and Van Der Voort
- **Cited by:** 8 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

Concurring Statement by
WICKERSHAM, Judge:
I join in the Majority Opinion of Judge Van der Voort.
As I view the record in this case, the trial judge, the Honorable Joseph W. de Furia, did not express his opinion on guilt or innocence, nor did he give his views on the credibility of a particular witness. What Judge de Furia did do was tell the jury that they should not be confused by *173 defendant’s sympathetic motive for committing a crime. As the judge said, “I am going to leave it for you.” The case was fairly tried and the defendant properly convicted of having sold cocaine and other drugs to Pennsylvania State Police Officers on several occasions in the Fall of 1978 on a McDonald’s parking lot in Haverford Township, Pennsylvania.

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