Eagle v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

The appellant, Claud Eagle, at his trial in the Whitley circuit court under an indictment accusing him of unlawfully, willfully and feloniously breaking and entering into the wholesale grocery house of Lanham & Terrell, was found guilty and given the minimum punishment prescribed by law. His motion for a new trial was overruled, and from the judgment pronounced on the verdict he prosecutes this appeal and urges by his counsel a number of alleged errors that are claimed to be sufficiently prejudicial to authorize a reversal of the judgment. They…