Harmon v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that \the issuance of writs of venire facias different from what the law prescribes is an intentional irregularity and not within the curative provisions of the statute\
• where defendant testified that he had previously been convicted of a killing, \he opened the door and assumed the risk that the prosecution would ask on cross-examination the degree of the homicide\
• “[T]he fact of conviction of a felony may be shown by the Commonwealth, but the name of the felony, other than perjury, and the details thereof may not be shown.”
• where defendant testified that he had previously been convicted of a killing, “he opened the door and assumed the risk that the prosecution would ask on cross-examination the degree of the homicide”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).