Frazier v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Moorman

Affirming.

Appellant, Jonathan Frazier, shot and killed his brother, Henry Frazier, in Letcher county on October 9, 1920. On the trial of the indictment for murder, appellant was convicted of manslaughter and his punishment fixed at confinement in the state penitentiary for ten years.

The motion for a new trial having been overruled, various grounds are assigned for a reversal of the judgment, the first of which is that one of the jurors expressed an opinion before the trial >as to the guilt of the accused. *242The alleged ineligible juror was J. H. Maggard, who…