Lowder v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Coujrt by

Judge Rees

— Affirming.

The appellant, Claude Lowder, has been convicted of the crime of mnrder and sentenced to life imprisonment. As grounds for reversal of the judgment it is urged that the evidence is not sufficient to sustain the verdict of the jury, the instructions are erroneous, and the argument of the Commonwealth’s attorney was improper.

Appellant shot and killed Bill Halbert about 2 o’clock in the morning of January 4, 1939, at the home of Julia Mattingly, where both appellant and Halbert were frequent visitors. Julia Mattingly apparently had transferred her…