Truax v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Nunn

Affirming.

Appellant was tried in the Spencer Circuit Court and sentenced to imprisonment during his life, for the murder of Grant Stoner. He filed grounds containing many reasons, for a new trial which the court overruled- and he has appealed.

It would he tedious and unprofitable to make a detailed discussion of the evidence adduced' on the trial so we will only state it'in substance. Appellee’s evidence tended to show that Stoner lived in Sparta, Kentucky ; that he had been traveling over the State for several years with a dog and pony show; that he had been…