Walker v. Commonwealth

Counsel for the plaintiff in error has argued this ease with his usual ability and astuteness, and has fortified his argument with abundant citation of' authority, but his argument has been chiefly addressed to technical points of procedure. Whatever may be the law elsewhere, or whatever it may have been aforetime in this State, since the adoption of the Code of 1919 there has existed in this State a statute which puts a limitation on the powers of this court to reverse the judgment of the trial court — a limitation which, we must consider on every application for an appeal and on the hearing…