Madden v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

On March 10, 1923, the grand jury of Bell county returned an indictment against appellant and defendant therein, Phoebe Madden, charging her with the offense *784denounced by section 1155 of tbe Kentucky Statutes as amended by act of 1922, chapter 17, page 65 of the Acts for that year. Upon her trial under a plea of not guilty, .she was convicted and sentenced to serve a term of five years in the state penitentiary, and her motion for a new trial having been overruled she prosecutes this appeal. Two of the grounds relied on as error in the motion for a…