Commonwealth v. Bighum

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing “the tendency of a normal juror to accept testimony of prior convictions as a basis for finding a predisposition to commit the crime charged”
• recognizing “the tendency of a normal juror to accept testimony of prior convictions as a basis for finding a predisposition to commit the crime charged”
• observing that “in those infrequent cases where jurisdiction depends upon the resolution of disputed facts, it is within the province of the jury to resolve the issue under proper instructions, and failure to give such instructions may constitute reversible error”
• Commonwealth may introduce in rebuttal evidence of prior convictions to attack the credibility of a defendant who has elected to testify in his own behalf
• because some of the shots fired at homicide victim occurred in Philadelphia County, court of that county had jurisdiction over the crime
• “[I]n those infrequent cases where jurisdiction depends upon the resolution of disputed facts, it is within the province of the jury to resolve the issue under proper instructions ____”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).