Meade v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Logan

Affirming;.

Newberry Meade, tbe appellant, on a Sunday morning in the summer of 1927, shut and killed Patrick H. Bates in Letcher county. He was charged with murder by indictment, and his trial before a jury resulted in a verdict of conviction. His punishment was fixed at 18 years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

His counsel have filed in his behalf a carefully prepared brief, interesting in composition, astute as to the argument of facts and tactful as to the presentation of the law. An analysis and summary of the brief shows that two major errors, in the…