Opinion
March 19, 1958.
April 16, 1958.
Criminal law — Unlawful possession and sale of narcotic drug — Evidence — Uncorroborated testimony of habitual user and convicted seller of heroin — Expert testimony.
Commonwealth v. Harris, 186 Pa. Super. 59, followed.
Before RHODES, P.J., HIRT, GUNTHER, WRIGHT, WOODSIDE, ERVIN, and WATKINS, JJ.
Appeal, No. 60, Oct. T., 1958, from judgment of Court of Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia County, Jan. T., 1957, No. 57, in case of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Zanaide Budd, also known as Dolores Jackson. Judgment affirmed.
Indictment charging defendant with possession and sale of narcotic drugs. Before SLOANE, J.
Verdict of guilty and judgment of sentence thereon. Defendant appealed.
Harvey N. Schmidt and Norris, Schmidt, Green, Harris Higginbotham, for appellant.
Juanita Kidd Stout, Assistant District Attorney, James N. Lafferty, First Assistant District Attorney, and Victor H. Blanc, District Attorney, for appellee.
Submitted March 19, 1958.
At the argument, before us, the defendant agreed that this appeal is to be controlled by our order in Commonwealth v. Harris, 186 Pa. Super. 59. Such disposition is appropriate under the circumstances. The defendant was charged and found guilty of the same kind of unlawful acts in relation to narcotics as were committed by Harris, and on the uncorroborated testimony of Ernest Jackson, the same drug addict whose testimony convicted Harris. On parallel facts ( mutatis mutandis as to time, place and other details), identical legal principles govern this appeal as were found to be controlling in the Harris case. Reference is made to our opinion in that case, filed this day.
Judgment of sentence affirmed.