Dowell v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Bichardson

Affirming.

This is a second appeal of this case. Dowell v. Commonwealth, 231 Ky. 412, 21 S. W. (2d) 651, 652. On a return of the case to the circuit court a trial was had in conformity to the opinion of this court. The appellant was again convicted and his punishment fixed at twenty-one years in the penitentiary. He appeals.

On this trial the evidence was substantially the same as set out in the former opinion of this court.

On the former appeal two questions were raised: (1) that the verdict was flagrantly against the evidence; (2) the admission of…