# Commonwealth v. Butler

> Superior Court of Pennsylvania · November 14, 1968 · 213 Pa. Super. 388

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9754184

## Case

- **Full name:** Commonwealth v. Butler, Appellant
- **Court:** Superior Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** November 14, 1968
- **Citations:** 213 Pa. Super. 388; 247 A.2d 794; 1968 Pa. Super. LEXIS 774
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Weight
- **Judges:** Weight, Watkins, Hannum, Wright, Montgomery, Jacobs, Hoffman, Spaulding
- **Cited by:** 4 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

Dissenting Opinion by
Weight, P. J.:
I would affirm the judgment of sentence. Although a few questions on cross-examination may have been technically improper, 1 no objection was made at the time and the record clearly indicates that the matter was not sufficiently prejudicial to require the grant of a new trial. Cf. Commonwealth v. Comer, 167 Pa. Superior Ct. 537 , 76 A. 2d 233 .
Watkins and Hannum, JJ., join in this dissenting opinion.
Our Supreme Court has now ruled in Commonwealth v. Smith, 432 Pa. 517 , 248 A. 2d 24 , filed November 27, 1968, that it is proper to question a defendant, who places his character in issue, concerning prior arrests which did not result in convictions.

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