Couch v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court bt

Judge Thomas

— Reversing-

The grand jury- of Leslie County returned an indictment against the appellant, Stubins Couch, accusing him of willfully murdering Silas Bray by shooting him with a pistol. At his trial he was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and punished by confinement in the penitentiary for ten- years. His motion for a new trial was overruled, and from the verdict and judgment pronounced thereon he prosecutes this appeal.

In his motion for a new trial these alleged grounds were relied on: (1) Error in the rejecting of evidence offered by defendant, and in…