Walters v. Commonwealth

Opinion" op the Court by

Judge Rees

— Reversing.

The grand jury of Estill county at the February, 1940, term of the Estill circuit court indicted the appellant, G-arnie Walters, jointly with Sherman Cox for the murder of Anna Isaacs. Prior to the trial at the February, 1942, term of the Estill circuit court, at which appellant was convicted, Sherman Cox had been tried twice and appellant once. Each of these three trials resulted in a hung jury. At appellant’s second trial he was convicted of voluntary manslaughter, and his punishment fixed at two years’ imprisonment. On this appeal he seeks…