Davidson v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Cheep Justice Settle

Dismissing the appeal.

*791January 25th, 1917, the appellant, Robert M. Davidson, by his attorney, filed in the office of the clerk of the Fayette circuit court the following motion:

“Comes the defendant, by counsel, and moves the court that a lunacy inquest be held so that defendant may be returned to the Eastern Kentucky Insane Asylum, as he had never been discharged and is now hopelessly insane and in a dying condition.”

On the 27th day of January, 1917, the court overruled the above motion as shown by the following order:

“This action having been…