Walton v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Rees

Affirming.’

The appellant, John Walton, Sr., was indicted in the-Campbell circuit, court for the murder of Donald Hall, and at his trial was convicted of the crime of manslaughter and his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of seven years.

In his motion for a new trial a number of grounds therefor are set out, but in this court his counsel urged only two, which are: (1) Alleged misconduct of the commonwealth’s attorney, and (2) that the jury arrived at the verdict by lot.

It would serve no useful purpose to relate the evidence in…