Commonwealth v. Galloway

OPINION

POMEROY, Justice.

Appellant, Cornell Galloway, was found guilty by a jury of murder in the second degree in connection with the fatal shooting of one Robert Lee Jones. 1 Following the denial of post-verdict motions, appellant was sentenced to a term of not less than ten nor more than twenty years imprisonment. In this direct appeal, 2 Galloway advances seven assignments of error in support of a new trial. Because we agree with appellant that it was error for the trial court to allow the prior recorded testimony of one of the Commonwealth’s witnesses to be read into evidence at…