Commonwealth v. Chambers

ACKER, J.,

This defendant *453has been convicted by a jury of retail theft. * This is defendant’s fourth offense. Defendant has filed a motion for a new trial and a motion in arrest of judgment. By brief and oral argument, defendant’s sole contention is that the trial court improperly allowed a Commonwealth witness to give an opinion regarding a method of shoplifting, believed to have been practiced in this case, which she had encountered in her experience as a security guard. On October 3, 1982, at about 1:00 p.m. defendant, Valerie Chambers, was on the second floor of the J. C. Penney Company…