Legal Opinion

McDaniel v. Commonwealth

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided October 29, 1918PublishedCited by 24 opinions

Appeal from Warren Circuit Court.

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Carroll

Reversing.

Under an indictment charging him with the murder of Dee Spears, Bradley McDaniel, a negro hoy eighteen years of age, was convicted and his punishment feed at death by the jury, and from the judgment on the verdict he prosecutes this appeal.

On Monday, April 22, Bradley McDaniel shot and killed Dee Spears, a white man, in the town of Smith’s Grove, in Warren county. He was immediately arrested and conveyed to the jail of Warren county and there kept in confinement until the Thursday following, at which time he was, by an order of the Warren county…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Allen v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1916
  2. Penman v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1911
  3. Samuels v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1913

3Cited by24 opinions

  1. United States v. HoffaDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1957
  2. Holmes v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1931
  3. Gillis v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1924
  4. McDaniel v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1919
  5. Shelton v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1939

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