Samuels v. Commonwealth

W. B. Samuels was indicted in the Corporation Court of the city of Danville for murder, found guilty and sentenced to conr finement in the penitentiary for a term of eighteen years. Tcy that judgment this court awarded a writ of error.

*902There being, in our opinion, no merit in the other assignments of error to the rulings of the trial court, or it not being probable that the matters therein referred to will arise upon another trial, we will consider only the question presented on the second assignment, viz.: whether or not it was error to refuse plaintiff in error the right to testify in his…