House v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Perry

Affirming.

The appellant, Jasper House, was indicted by the grand jury of the Clay circuit court at its April term, 1932, for the willful murder of George Cupps. Upon his trial, he was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to a term of twenty-one years in the* state penitentiary. .

He urges on his appeal from that judgment (1) that, as his conviction was secured upon circumstantial evidence alone, which was as consistent, he contends, with the defendant’s innocence as with his guilt, it was insufficient to support the verdict; (2) that the venue, of…