Lear v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Sandidge

Affirming.

The appellant, Edgar Lear, was tried by a jury in the Payette circuit court under an indictment which charged him with the crime of murder and by its verdict he was found guilty of manslaughter and his punishment was fixed at confinement in the state penitentiary for twenty-one years. He prosecutes this appeal from the judgment rendered on that verdict.

As his case is presented by brief filed for him, but one ground is urged for a reversal of the judgment; that is, that the verdict is not sustained by the evidence. A consideration of that…