Commonwealth v. Blackshear

How courts have described this case

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

• “unwillingness to commit crimes generally” apparently assumed a proper subject for character evidence
• “For the purpose of proving that one has or has not done a particular act, it is not competent to show that he has or has not been in the habit of doing other similar acts”
• “defendant in a criminal case may put in evidence his general good reputation in regard to the elements of character involved in the commission of the crime charged against him, for the purpose of establishing the improbability of his having done the wrong imputed to him”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).