Leiber v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 4 — INDICTMENT FOR MURDER APPEAL EROM JEEEERSON CIRCUIT COURT. CITED Revised Statutes, secs. 1, 2, chap. 28 (1 Stanton, 378). Criminal Code, secs. 236, 237. Wharton’s Criminal Law, 675. Roscoe’s Criminal Evidence, 24. 1 Duvall, 226, Smith v. Commonwealth. 1 Greenleaf’s Evidence, secs. 33, 34. 1 Bishop’s Crim. Law, secs. 80, 226, 227, 228, 229, 368-71, 257,414. 2 Bishop’s Crim.
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Case 4 — INDICTMENT FOR MURDER APPEAL EROM JEEEERSON CIRCUIT COURT. CITED Revised Statutes, secs. 1, 2, chap. 28 (1 Stanton, 378). Criminal Code, secs. 236, 237. Wharton’s Criminal Law, 675. Roscoe’s Criminal Evidence, 24. 1 Duvall, 226, Smith v. Commonwealth. 1 Greenleaf’s Evidence, secs. 33, 34. 1 Bishop’s Crim. Law, secs. 80, 226, 227, 228, 229, 368-71, 257,414. 2 Bishop’s Crim. Law, sees. 630, 723, 632, ?25, 634, 727, 653-54. 8 Bush, 481, Bohannon v. Commonwealth. 2 Russell on Crimes, 761. 1 Greenleaf on Evidence, 156. 2 Barn. & Cress. 176, King v. Mead. 2 Jones (N. C.), The State v.…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE HARDIN
delivered the opinion oe the court.
This appeal is prosecuted for the reversal of a judgment and sentence of death rendered upon a verdict convicting the appellant on an indictment for the murder of Charles Goennewein.
In the argument for the appellant the correctness of the action of the circuit court is questioned both as to its rulings in relation to the admissibility of evidence and upon various propositions to instruct the jury. The first question thus presented for the determination of this court, and, as we conceive, the most important one which it will be necessary to…
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