Commonwealth v. Mashie

Opinion by

James, J.,

Appellants were jointly tried and convicted of rape; Act of June 24,1939, P. L. 872 §721, 18 PS 4721. The only question is succinctly stated in appellant’s brief as follows: “Did the Trial Court err in allowing the District Attorney to ask character witnesses for the defendants, whether they had heard, or did they know that Edward Uzialko, one of the defendants, was arrested and convicted, and spent time in the Lackawanna County jail in 1937?”

It is plain that the statement raises no question whatever insofar as the appeal of Mashie is concerned. The judgment in his case…