Davis v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Baird

— Affirming.

Kile Davis and Beckham Allen were indicted in the Knott circuit court for the crime of the murder of "Woodrow Allen. At the March term of that court a severance was demanded; Kile Davis was tried and convicted of voluntary manslaughter and his punishment fixed at twenty-one years in the penitentiary. He appeals. He relies upon the following errors for reversal: (1) That the argument and conduct of the commonwealth’s attorney was improper; (2) that there was both actual and implied bias in the minds of certain jurors who tried the case; (3) that…