Commonwealth v. Bunnell

Citations

• 20 Pa. Super. 51
• 1902 Pa. Super. LEXIS 180

Syllabus

<p>Practice — Superior Court — Assignments of error — Evidence.</p> <p>In criminal cases the jurisdiction of the appellate court to review rulings upon questions of evidence is limited by the statute to such as were excepted to at tlie proper time in the court below. The rule that an assignment of error to such ruling not based on a bill of exceptions will not be considered, is inflexible.</p> <p>Criminal law — Evidence—Declarations—Bawdyhouse.</p> <p>On the trial of an indictment for keeping a bawdyhouse, an offer to prove that the prosecutor had a conversation with the prisoner when the latter was behind the bar, in the house waiting on customers, in which he stated that he and his brother were doing a nice business, and getting along very well, is competent as tending to show the connection of the prisoner with the business.</p> <p>The general reputation of the inmates and frequenters of an alleged bawdyliouse may be proved, in order to establish the character of the place; and it is also competent to prove that the house itself has acquired the name of a bawdyliouse.</p> <p>Criminal law — Evidence—Hostility of prosecutor.</p> <p>Where a prosecutor in a criminal proceeding has admitted his personal hostility to the defendant, it is immaterial for the defendant to show the cause of such hostility.</p>