Slaughter v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Carroll

Reversing.

The appellant, Slaughter, prosecutes this appeal, asking a reversal of a judgment of the Christian Circuit Court imposing the death penalty. Three grounds are relied on: First, the failure of the court to grant a continuance; second, improper argument of the Commonwealth’s Attorney; and third, that the verdict upon which the judgment was rendered was not supported by the evidence.

The facts are few and simple. The appellant is a negro boy about 19 years old, and on February 4, 1912, *6lie shot and killed L. A. Jenkins, a white man about 48 years of…