Vanover v. Commonwealth

OPINION of the Court by

Judge Richardson

Affirming.

Lee Vanover and Chester .Shell were indicted by the grand jury of Harlan connty charged with the murder of Mart Pace. In 1932, Vanover, on a separate trial, was convicted by a jury, and his punishment fixed at imprisonment for life. He prosecuted an appeal to this court, insisting that certain admitted evidence was incompetent; the verdict was flagrantly against the evidence, and the instruction authorizing his conviction as an aider and abettor was defective and improper.

On that trial the court admitted testimony that Vanover’s reputation for…