Spurlock v. Commonwealth

Judge Rees

Affirming.

Appellant, Robert Lee Spurlock, bas been convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for a term of eight year3 on tbe charge of malicious shooting and wounding. He seeks reversal of the judgment chiefly on the ground that the court erred in overruling his supplemental motion and grounds for a new trial. The ground for a new trial set up in the supplemental motion was newly discovered evidence.

Appellant, who was 17 years of age, shot and seriously wounded Berlin Osborne on January 5, 1949. He was indicted on January 12, 1949, and was released on bond on January 14, 1949. The…