Caudill v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Logan

Affirming.

The appellant, .with his son Charlie Caudill, was indicted for the crime of murder by the grand jury of Floyd county. They were tried jointly in 1926, and were convicted of manslaughter, but, upon appeal to this court, the judgment was reversed. 220 Ky. 191, 294 S. W. 1042. The reason for the reversal on the first appeal was because of the admission of incompetent evidence. At the second trial in 1928 the appellant was tried separately, and the jury again found him guilty of manslaughter and fixed his punishment at eight years’ confinement in the…