Chism v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Sims, Commissioner

Commissioner Affirming.

The appellant, Grover Chism, was convicted of the murder of Schuyler McClure and sentenced to death. He seeks a reversal of the judgment. on four grounds: (1) He was not given sufficient time within which to prepare his defense; (2) the verdict was the result of prejudice against him on the part of the jury; (3) incompetent evidence was introduced against him; (4) the court failed to give the whole law of the case in its instructions.

At the time of the homicide appellant was 47 years old and was a farm laborer residing in the…