Underwood v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 46. — Prosecution Against William Underwood for Murder. — ■ APPEAL FROM LAUREL CIRCUIT COURT — H. C. FAULKNER, CIRCUIT JUDGE.
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Case 46. — Prosecution Against William Underwood for Murder. — ■ APPEAL FROM LAUREL CIRCUIT COURT — H. C. FAULKNER, CIRCUIT JUDGE. Defendant Convicted of Voluntary Manslaughter and Appeals. 1. It was error in the court to -permit witnesses who- had never been summoned in the case, and who were not indorsed on the indictment, and who, although the rule had been made excluding them from the court room, had stayed and listened to the evidence, to be thereafter allowed to testify. 2. It was error in the court, when the jury went to view the ground where the difficulty occurred, to permit one of…
1Opinion of the Court
*387Opinion op the court by
JUDGE BARKER
Affirming.
The appellant, William- Underwood, was indicted by the grand jury of Laurel county, charging him in several counts, first, with conspiring with Ab. Early and Joe Harp to murder Ed. Jones, in furtherance of which the latter was killed; second, with the murder of Ed. Jones; and, third, with aiding and abetting Ab. Early' and Joe Harp, and each of them, in the murder of Ed. Jones. To this indictment he. pleaded not guilty, and.a trial resulted in his being found guilty of voluntary manslaughter, and his punishment fixed at confinement in the…
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- Hendrickson v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1912
- Commonwealth v. TrinkleSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1924
- Barnett v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1966
- State v. DavisWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1914
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