Redmon v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 55 — VERDICT BY LOT APPEAL PROM BOURBON CIRCUIT COURT. 1. Verdicts found by lot are the issue of ignorance, passion or indifference. 2. Obey are illegal at common law.
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Case 55 — VERDICT BY LOT APPEAL PROM BOURBON CIRCUIT COURT. 1. Verdicts found by lot are the issue of ignorance, passion or indifference. 2. Obey are illegal at common law. The fact that the verdict in this case was so found, appears properly upon the record, and is as much a part of it as any other fact. 3. That this court hns-jurisdiction to hear the error and reverse upon it, is clear, and has been decided by this court in Paducah and Elizabeth-town R. R. Co. v. The Commonwealth, 80 Ky., 148, and such is the fair and necessary construction of the Criminal Code. (Rutherford’s Case, 78 lb.,…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Hines
Prom a conviction and sentence to the penitentiary for nine years on the charge of murder, this appeal is taken.
The principal ground relied upon for reversal is that the verdict of the jury was arrived at by lot. It appears that there was no difference of opinion among the jury as to the guilt of appellant, and no individual ■opinion expressed as to the character of punishment that should be inflicted, when it was agreed that each ..juror should write upon a slip of paper the length of time he thought the accused should be confined in the ■penitentiary, and that these sums, when added…
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- Gipson v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1909
- McLaughlin v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1921
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