Bonar v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

The appellant, Charles Bonar, with four others, was indietecl by the grand jury of Carter county on a charge of wilfully murdering Lake Kitchen by shooting and ■wounding him, and from which shooting and wounding he died. One of the co-defendants with appellant in the indictment was Asa Leadingham and when the prosecution came on. for trial the appellant, Bonar, demanded a separate trial, whereupon the Commonwealth elected to first try Leadingham. A jury was empaneled for that purpose, and the trial of the latter was had resulting in a verdict…