Commonwealth v. Lindner

Opinion by

Parker, J.,

On March 18, 1938 a branch of the Germantown Trust Company was entered and robbed of $1,800 in cash by armed and masked bandits. Shortly thereafter Joseph Lindner, the appellant, was convicted of the offenses of robbery while armed with a firearm and unlawfully carrying a revolver on his person. He was sentenced on two indictments. In support of these appeals it is argued that the evidence as to the identity of the appellant was insufficient to support the verdict, that the cross-examination by the assistant district attorney was so inflammatory as to constitute…