Waggoner v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Richardson

Affirming.

Jim Tom Waggoner was charged by an indictment returned by the grand jury of Harlan county with the crime of willful murder, committed by the shooting and killing of Ledger Howard.

On a trial before a jury, a verdict and judgment fixing his punishment at twenty-one years in the state reformatory were entered; from the latter he appeals, complaining of the action of the court permitting the Honorable D. B. Smith to participate with the commonwealth’s attorney pro tern, in the prosecution, a statement of a prospective juror while being examined in…