Hummel v. Commonwealth

Defendant was indicted as an accessory before the fact of breaking and entering with the intent to commit larceny, and with feloniously receiving stolen property exceeding $100 in value, knowing it had been stolen. The jury found the defendant not guilty as an accessory before the fact, but guilty of receiving stolen property. His punishment was fixed at 10 years confinement in the State penitentiary, and judgment was entered on the jury’s verdict.

The defendant contends that the trial court erred in unduly limiting him in his cross-examination of the Commonwealth’s principal witness.

On June…