Fearon v. Commonwealth

Joseph F. Fearon, defendant, was convicted by a jury of uttering a forged instrument and was sentenced in accordance with the jury’s verdict to three years in the State penitentiary. In his petition for a writ of error and supersedeas, which we awarded, defendant contended that the trial court erred in denying his several motions for a mistrial on the grounds that the argument of the attorney for the Commonwealth was improper and prejudicial.

The Commonwealth has moved to dismiss the writ of error *257and supersedeas as having been improvidently awarded for failure of the defendant to comply with…