Commonwealth v. Krenkowitz

Opinion by

Hoffman, J.,

Appellant contends that his 1967 sentence should be reconsidered because the sentencing judge relied upon a 1963 conviction, which has since been reversed.

“For almost three decades in Pennsylvania it has been a well established and recognized rale of law that evidence of prior offenses committed by the defendant ... is admissible . . . solely for the purpose of enabling the jury to decide what penalty should be imposed on the defendant.” Commonwealth v. Thompson, 389 Pa. 382, 399, 133 A. 2d 207 (1957), cert. den. 355 U.S. 849; Commonwealth ex rel. Sullivan v. Ashe, 325…