Commonwealth v. Hill

Opinion by

Packel, J.,

The appellant claims a trial and a sentencing error. At trial, the assistant district attorney asked the defendant on cross-examination whether there had not been a damaging statement made in another trial. In fact there had been no such damaging statement. Although the question was manifestly improper, 1 the witness denied that there was such a statement, counsel informed the court that there was no such statement and the court, as the finder of fact, indicated that it put no reliance on the existence of such a statement. Therefore, this is not a case where the testimony…