Walker v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court'by

Judge Bees

Affirming.

Appellant, Mabel Walker, also known as Mabel Wilson, indicted for murder, was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to- confinement in tbe penitentiary for .twenty-one years.

'Tbe only grounds for a new trial filed by appellant in tbe court below were tbe refusal of tbe trial court to grant ber a continuance and improper remarks made by tbe attorney for tbe -Commonwealth in bis argument to tbe jury.

Appellant was indicted at tbe August term, 1925, of tbe Harlan circuit court, and tbe case was set for trial ■on August 27, 1925. On that…