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COMMONWEALTH v. HILL

223 Pa.Super. 42 (1972)

Commonwealth v. Hill, Appellant.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

November 16, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morris H. Wolff, with him Stassen, Kostos and Mason, for appellant.

Norris Gelman, Assistant District Attorney, with him Milton M. Stein, Assistant District Attorney, James D. Crawford, Deputy District Attorney, Richard A. Sprague, First Assistant District Attorney, and Arlen Specter, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Before WRIGHT, P.J., WATKINS, JACOBS, HOFFMAN, SPAULDING, CERCONE, and PACKEL, JJ.

OPINION BY PACKEL, J., November 16, 1972:

The appellant claims a trial and a sentencing error. At trial, the assistant district attorney asked the defendant on cross-examination whether there had not been a damaging statement made in another trial. In fact there had been no such damaging statement. Although the question was manifestly improper,1 the witness denied that there was such a statement, counsel informed the court that there was...

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