Ochsner v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice O’Rear

Affirming.

Appellant was convicted of the crime of rohhery. His punishment was fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for the term of 10 years. On his appeal he relies on three principal alleged errors: One because the court permitted the Commonwealth to require the appellant, while on the witness stand, to testify in detail as to the facts of a former conviction of a felony over the objection of the defendant'; the other because the court erred in failing to instruct the jury that they should only consider the fact of his former conviction as…