Crum v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Perry —

Affirming.

The appellant, Lem Crum, was indicted March 9, 1931, charged with the willful murder of Ray Flannery, and having been tried on this indictment in the Elliott circuit court July 17,1931, he was convicted of voluntary manslaughter,.and his punishment fixed at seven years’ confinement at hard labor in the state reformatory at Frankfort. From this judgment pronounced on that verdict, his motion and grounds for a new trial being overruled, he prosecutes this appeal, and by counsel urges two grounds for reversal: (1) That the verdict is not supported by…