Abbott v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Willis

Affirming.

BlneforcL Abbott was convicted of the crime of rape and condemned to suffer death by hanging in the county where the crime was committed. Ky. Stats., sec. 1137-1. He is here insisting that error to his prejudice intervened at the trial in the rejection of evidence offered by him and in an instruction given to the jury.

The defendant proved by the circuit clerk that a warrant for the arrest of defendant issued by the county judge had been transmitted to his office with papers for the grand jury and was in his custody. An offer to read the contents of…