Commonwealth v. Jones

Opinion by

Jacobs, J.,

Appellant challenges the admission into evidence of references made by two Commonwealth witnesses to books of photographs containing appellant’s picture which were shown to the complainant by the police. Although we find that the references may have permitted the jury to infer that appellant had a prior criminal record, any resulting prejudice to appellant was cured and made harmless by evidence presented by the defense and the court’s instructions to the jury.

On the morning of October 18, 1971, Leonard Rogers was attacked by two black males and shot in the lower chest…