Burdue v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Lassing

— Affirming.

Appellant W. D. Burdue was indicted in the Jefferson' Circuit Court, charged with the crime of incest. To that indictment he entered a plea of not guilty. Upon a trial before a jury he was found guilty as charged in the in*429dictment and given an indeterminate sentence in'the penitentiary. He prosecutes this appeal and seeks a reversal upon three grounds: First, that the charge of incest is not made out by proof that the parties concerned were half brother and half sister; second, that a plea of former jeopardy interposed should have been…