Commonwealth v. McClanahan

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Settle

Affirming.

Notwithstanding its success in convicting appellee of house-breaking under an indictment charging him- with that crime, appellant, Commonwealth of Kentucky, being dissatisfied with the ruling of the Circuit Court in excluding certain evidence offered by it on the trial, of an alleged confession of his guilt made by appellee, by this appeal seeks a review of that ruling.

The evidence in question consisted of a conversation or conversations had with appellee by J. B. Sheeran, a detective and police officer of the City of Newport, after the arrest of…