Commonwealth v. Dessus

JACOBS, President Judge:

This appeal is from a judgment of sentence which was imposed following the conviction of appellant, Ronald Des-sus, on four assault charges. 1 Already serving a term of imprisonment for life, appellant was sentenced to a concurrent life term. He now appeals from that sentence, and raises eleven allegations of error. 2 Those issues, briefly stated, are as follows: 1) the mandatory life sentence required upon conviction of assault by life prisoner 3 violates the United States and Pennsylvania Constitutions; 2) the trial court erred by permitting cross-examination of…