Couch v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by Drury,

Commissioner—

Affirming.

Henry Couch, Floyd Napier, and Corbitt Barger were charged by indictment with the murder of Isaiah Herd. They asked for separate trials. The commonwealth elected to try Henry 'Couch, and upon his trial he was found guilty of manslaughter, and his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for 21 years. His motion for a new trial was overruled, he excepted, and has appealed.

As his first ground for a new trial consisted of a charge that the verdict is flagrantly against the evidence, it becomes necessary for us to state briefly the…