Benson v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Fulton

Reversing.

On tbe trial of tbe appellant, James Chester Benson, for tbe murder of Martha Dell Vincent, a girl 19 years of age with whom he had been keeping company for more than a year, no instruction was given on self-defense or authorizing a conviction on any lower degree of the crime. The jury found him guilty of murder and fixed his punishment at death and from the judgment entered on that verdict this appeal is prosecuted.

_ Since the sole ground urged for reversal is error in failing to give the whole law of the case, there is no necessity to recite the…