Bingham v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Sampson

Affirming.

The grand jury of Pike county returned an indictment in February, 1918, accusing Mosco Belcher and E. S. Bingham of the willful murder of Ñels on Matney. *689Shortly thereafter Bingham moved for a severance of trial, which was granted, and the Commonwealth elected to try Belcher first. At the spring term, 1918, Belcher was put upon trial and the jury returned a verdict finding him guilty of'manslaughter and fixing his punishment at confinement in the state penitentiary for twenty-one years. Judgment was entered thereon, from which Belcher appealed to…