Stanley v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Cammack

Affirming.

Willie Stanley, Audrey Davis, Jeff Bryant, and Charlie Smith were charged with the crime of robbing Bert Combs at Four Seam, in Perry County, about 9:30 p. m., Sunday, February 21, 1943. Upon his separate trial Stanley was found guilty and his punishment fixed at two years in the reformatory. The principal grounds urged for reversal are: (1) There should have been a peremptory instruction in favor of the accused; and' (2) there was misconduct on the part of two jurors.

Bert Combs arrived at Four Seam shortly before 9:30 o’clock on the night of the…