Commonwealth v. Amos

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Barbieri,

This is an appeal from a judgment of sentence of ten to twenty years entered by the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County upon a verdict of second degree murder following denial by the Court en hone of defendant’s motion for a new trial.

There is no dispute that appellant shot and killed the decedent. The only question to be decided at trial was whether or not appellant acted in self-defense. The jury’s verdict was that he did not.

Appellant raises numerous allegations of trial errors, four of which we think merit discussion. Two of these require that the…