Hunt v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Baird —

Affirming.

Gifford Hunt was tried and convicted for the killing of Joe Stringer in the Pulaski circuit court on the 1st day of October, 1937, and his punishment fixed by a jury at confinement in the penitentiary for life. From the judgment based upon that verdict he appeals.

He rests his right of reversal on the fol] owing grounds: (1) That the verdict of the jury was flagrantly against the evidence; (2) that the court erred in the admission of incompetent testimony and in refusing to admit competent testimony offered by him; (3) that the verdict returned…