Allen v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Sims

Affirming.

Ramey Allen was convicted of the murder of Edgar Begley and his punishment was fixed at life imprisonment. To reverse the judgment he assigns five errors, two of which are practically the same and another was not argued in his brief, therefore it is waived. The three we are concerned with are: (a) The verdict is flagrantly against the evidence; (b) the verdict is the result of passion and prejudice; (c) incompetent evidence was introduced by the Commonwealth.

To dispose of appellant’s first ground it is necessary to give a brief resume of the…