Salisbury v. Commonwealth

PARK, Judge.

The indictment in this case charged that the defendant-appellant, Herbert Gene Salisbury, murdered Crit Butler on October 22, 1974, by shooting him with a pistol. Following a trial of the ease in the Floyd Circuit Court, a jury returned a verdict finding Salisbury guilty of voluntary manslaughter and fixing his maximum term of imprisonment at thirteen years. Salisbury appeals from the judgment entered by the circuit court on the jury verdict.

As his first ground for reversing the judgment of conviction, Salisbury argues that the trial judge erred in declining to disqualify himself…