Commonwealth v. Jones

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Schaffer,

Defendant stands convicted of murder of the second degree and was duly sentenced. He raises in bar of the affirmance of the judgment of sentence a single proposition: That the court improperly received in evidence from the Commonwealth, as affecting his credibility, after he had offered himself as a witness and proof of good reputation, an indictment to which years before he had entered a plea of guilty. That indictment contained two counts. The first charged him with assault and battery “with intent him, the said Samuel Jackson, then and there feloniously to…