Bryant v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Logan

Affirming.

Mitchell Bryant and the appellant, Clarence Bryant, brothers, were jointly indicted in the Breathitt circuit court charged with the offense of murder. Mitchell Bryant shot and killed Richard Herald, and the charge is that the appellant was guilty as an aider and abettor. This occurred in 1925. Mitchell Bryant was tried and convicted and his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for thirteen years. Upon an appeal to this court the judgment in his case was affirmed in the latter part of 1926, and the opinion is reported in 216 Ky. 724,…