Commonwealth v. Pigg

How courts have described this case

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• holding that third-degree murder does not merge with homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence for sentencing purposes
• finding of malice supported where defendant, operating 18-wheeler, drove other drivers off road and ignored requests of fellow driver to stop driving
• finding of malice supported where defendant, operating 18-wheeler, drove other drivers off road and ignored requests of fellow driver to stop driving
• operation of 18-wheel tractor trailer down narrow road while in intoxicated state is sufficient to give rise to inference of malice as necessary to support conviction for third-degree murder
• same for an intoxicated tractor trailer driver who ran several cars off the road and ignored another driver’s plea that hé stop driving prior to the fatal collision
• “[I]t is well established that malice may be inferred from the use of a deadly weapon upon a vital part of the body.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).