COMMONWEALTH v. BONNANO


216 Pa.Super. 201 (1970)

Commonwealth v. Bonnano, Appellant.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

March 19, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, Jr., for appellant.

James D. Crawford, Assistant District Attorney, and Arlen Specter, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Before WRIGHT, P.J., MONTGOMERY, JACOBS, HOFFMAN, SPAULDING, and CERCONE, JJ. (WATKINS, J., absent).


OPINION BY SPAULDING, J., March 19, 1970:

In Commonwealth v. Trowery, 211 Pa.Super. 171, 235 A.2d 171 (1967), photographs of the defendant from a police file commonly known as the "rogues gallery" were introduced into evidence over timely objections. This Court held that admission to be reversible error. As we stated in Trowery, the well established common law rule is that, ". . . in a criminal prosecution, proof...

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