Amburgey v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Sims

Affirming.

An indictment was returned at the July 1941 term of the Knott Circuit Court charging Sid Amburgey and O. C. Vance with the murder of Bobby Bentley. Shortly thereafter Amburgey was inducted into the army and was not discharged until the fall of 1945, which accounts for his not being tried until the March term of 1946.

Amburgey was granted a severance and his trial resulted in a conviction for manslaughter with his punishment being fixed at confinement for two years in the penitentiary. The sole ground argued in his brief for reversal of the judgment is…