Leadingham v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

The appellant, Asa Leadingham, and ethers were jointly indicted by the grand jury of Carter county for *292the murder of Lafe Kitchen. Under a separate trial the appellant was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and his punishment fixed at twenty years ’ confinement in the penitentiary. He appealed to this court, relying upon a number of errors, and the judgment was reversed in the case of Leadingham v. Commonwealth, 180 Ky. 38. The only ground upon which the judgment was reversed was because one of the jurors who convicted him was related by blood to…