Radford v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

The grand jury of Estill county indicted appellant, Lem Radford, jointly with Tracey Covey, charging them with the murder of Otha Stevens by shooting him with a shotgun with the necessary criminal intent to constitute the crime named in the indictment. At his separate trial appellant was convicted of the crime of voluntary manslaughter and punished by confinement in the state penitentiary for twenty-one years. On this appeal therefrom his counsel urges four grounds, each of which he insists is sufficiently prejudicial to authorize a reversal of the…