Heck v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Hurt

Reversing.

The appellant, Charles Heck, was indicted in the Daviess Circuit Court, charged with the willful murder of one George Hester, and upon his trial he was found guilty of murder by the jury, and the penalty fixed at imprisonment for life, and the court, thereupon, entered a judgment accordingly.

The grounds and motion of appellant for a new trial being overruled, he has appealed to this court, and seeks a reversal of the judgment of conviction against him for the following reasons: First: Because the court erred in refusing to grant/ him a change of…