Manns v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a party, “having agreed upon the action taken by the trial court, should not be allowed to assume an inconsistent position”
• holding that a party may not take advantage of a situation he invited
• applying the approbate-reprobate doctrine to preclude the appellant’s challenge to his misdemeanor conviction after he asked to be convicted “of a misdemeanor rather than the felony”
• applying the doctrine to reject the defendant’s argument that the evidence was insufficient to convict him of misdemeanor interfering with the property rights of another when at trial he implored the trial court to convict him of this very misdemeanor rather than a felony
• No litigant will be permitted to invite error and then to take advantage of the situation created by his own wrong.
• criminal defendant may not both approbate and reprobate

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).