Commonwealth v. Brubaker

Citations

• 13 Pa. Super. 14
• 1900 Pa. Super. LEXIS 105

Syllabus

<p>Charge of court — Absence of request for instructions — Good character.</p> <p>The legal effect of good character is for the jury and where no requests are made for specific instructions and no points are submitted for answer, the appellate court will not sustain an assignment of error to a detached portion of the charge because more elaborate instructions were not given as to the effect of character; if special instruction was desired it should have been asked for.</p> <p>Charge of court — Presentation of question of'motive.</p> <p>The appellate court will not reverse for alleged error in the manner of the court in presenting the question of motive on the part of the prosecutrix in instituting criminal proceedings when all the disputed questions of fact were fairly submitted to the jury and the charge was not misleading in what was stated and was not open to any criticism for bias or partiality.</p>