Burden v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Ohiee Justice Thomas — ■

Affirming.

On May 16,1925, at about the hour of 11:30 a. m., in the mining town of Powderly,' Muhlenberg county, Ken tucky, the appellant, Nellie May Burden, shot and killed Clarrissa Edwards. . She was indicted by the grand jury of that county charged with murder and upon her trial was convicted and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for life, and on this appeal from the judgment pronounced on that verdict after her motion for a new-trial was overruled, her counsel insists (1), that the verdict is not sustained by the evidence and is…