Brown v. Commonwealth

HOGG, Justice.

Amos Brown, 38 years of age, was indicted, tried and convicted in the Logan Circuit Court on the charge of wilful murder of Roy Sears, his brother-in-law, and his punishment fixed by a jury at life imprisonment. On this appeal he seeks a reversal of- the judgment, which was pronounced on the verdict, on the following grounds: (1) he was entitled to a directed verdict; (2) there were errors in the admission of evidence and the court’s refusal to admit cer tain evidence; (3) the court failed to instruct on the whole law of the case; (4) improper and prejudicial argument was made…