Taylor v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

The appellant and defendant in the indictment, Walter Q-lenn Taylor, was convicted in the Perry circuit court of the crime of murder, and punished by life im prisonment in the penitentiary. Though his motion for a new trial — which was overruled — contained a number of grounds as alleged prejudicial errors, but two of them are urged on this appeal for a reversal of the judgment. They are: (1) Error of the court in overruling appellant’s motion for a peremptory acquittal, and (2) if mistaken in ground (1), then the verdict is flagrantly against the…