Pennington v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Rees

Affirming.

Raleigh Pennington has been convicted of the crime of murder and his punishment fixed at imprisonment for life. The only grounds relied upon for reversal of the judgment are: (1) Alleged error of the court in overruling the appellant’s motion to set aside the swearing of the jury and continue the case made at the conclusion ■of the evidence for the Commonwealth when it was discovered that a deputy sheriff who was hostile to appellant had assisted in summoning the jury; and (2) alleged ■error in the admission of evidence. There is no claim that the…