Adkins v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 86 — INDICTMENT— APPEAL EROM KNOX CIRCUIT COURT. . 1. The Knox County Court was without jurisdiction, the order of the Perry Circuit Court transferring the case being void. (Ky. Stats., sec. 1110; Higgins v. Commonwealth, 94 Ky., 57.) 2. The refusal to continue a criminal case when the defendant is entitled to a continuance is sufficient cause for reversal.
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Case 86 — INDICTMENT— APPEAL EROM KNOX CIRCUIT COURT. . 1. The Knox County Court was without jurisdiction, the order of the Perry Circuit Court transferring the case being void. (Ky. Stats., sec. 1110; Higgins v. Commonwealth, 94 Ky., 57.) 2. The refusal to continue a criminal case when the defendant is entitled to a continuance is sufficient cause for reversal. (Morgan v. Commonwealth, 14 Bush, 106; Salisbury v. Commonwealth, 79 Ky., 142; White v. Commonwealth, 80 Ky., 489; Petty v. Commonwealth, 12 Ky. Law Rep., 920; Bowlin v. Commonwealth, 94 Ky., 394; Vogt v. Commonwealth, 92 Ky., 71;…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE GRACE
delivered the opinion of the court
This is an appeal by Joseph Adkins and Jesse Fields from a judgment of the Knox Circuit Court, sentencing each of them to confinement in the State penitentiary for life, for the murder of Josiah Combs.
The killing occurred in Hazard, the county seat of Perry county, on the 23d day of September, 1894, same being Sunday, and about 7 o’clock in the morning. Indictment against these defendants was duly found by the grand jury of Perry county on the 13th day of December, 1894, and on *543the same day, a motion was made by the Commonwealth, for a change of…
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