Sawyer v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court bt

Judge Baird

Affirming.

The appellant, Granville Sawyer, was indicted by tbe grand jury of Owsley county at tbe March term, 1936, for the crime of the willful murder of one Frank Bowman. At the June term of said court in 1936 he was tried and a verdict was returned by the jury convicting him of the crime of voluntary manslaughter and fixing his punishment at confinement in the state reformatory for twenty-one years. He appeals from that verdict and from the judgment of the court.

His counsel assigns five reasons for the reversal: First, because of newly discovered evidence,…