Colbert v. Commonwealth

CULLEN, Commissioner.

Herman Colbert appeals from a judgment of conviction of armed robbery, imposing a sentence of life imprisonment.

The only witnesses upon the trial were the victim, the arresting officer, and an employe of the state reformatory who had given a lie detector test to the defendant. The only real issue upon the trial was whether the defendant was the person who committed the robbery.

The major contentions of the appellant are that it was error to admit the testimony concerning the lie detector test, and it was error to permit the prosecuting witness to testify that he had…