Pharris v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Moorman

Revers-ing.

■ Otis Pliarris, Louisa Pliarris, Louise Booher, Claude Willen and Grady Linder were jointly indicted in the Cumberland circuit court for the murder of Granville Linder. On the separate trial of Otis Pharris he was convicted and his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for- life. He contends on this appeal that the court erred in instructing the jury, in admitting incompetent evidence, and in refusing to instruct the jury to return a verdict of not guilty at the conclusion of the Commonwealth’s evidence.

The decedent was the husband…