Commonwealth v. Goins

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Nix,

This appeal again raises the ever-troublesome problem of the extent to which a court is permitted to comment on the evidence in its charge to the jury. We are satisfied that in this case, the trial court exceeded the permissible limits and that a new trial must be awarded.

On the evening of October 6,1967, at approximately 9:30 P.M. the deceased, Ceretta Bryson, then twenty *596years of age, left her home to make certain purchases at a neighborhood store. After making her purchases, while en route home, she was set upon by a man, identified as appellant, and stabbed three…