Miller v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Settle

Reversing.

Following liis indictment by the grand jury of Breckinridge county for the murder of Sam Haycraft, the appellant, Charles Miller, a negro, was tried in the circuit court of that county for the crime, by verdict of a jury found guilty and his punishment fixed at death. The appellant filed a motion and grounds for a new trial, but *705the motion was overruled by the court, sentence pronounced and judgment entered in conformity with the verdict. Duly excepting to each of these acts and rulings of the trial court, he prayed and was granted an appeal from…