Garner v. Commonwealth

GANT, Justice.

Appellant was convicted of two counts of trafficking in Schedule II narcotics in August, 1982, and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment on each count. The same jury, at the recidivist portion of the bifurcated proceedings, enhanced the sentences to ten years and 20 years, which were ordered by the court to run concurrently.

This appeal emanates from the Persistent Felony Offender proceedings, appellant urging two grounds for reversal. The first ground is that the testimony of a probation and parole officer of the Commonwealth, utilized to prove the age and parole status of the…