Coomer v. Commonwealth

CAMMACK, Chief Justice.

Ed Coomer was convicted on a charge of carrying concealed a.deadly weapon and sentenced to serve two years in the penitentiary. He is appealing on the grounds that (1) the evidence is insufficient to support the verdict; and (2) the court erred in refusing to grant a new trial because one member of the jury stated, on a poll being taken, that he was forced to sign the verdict.

There were two witnesses for the Commonwealth in chief, Sarah Johnson and Jimmy Johnson, her husband. Both testified the appellant came to their home at night, in the company of Eliza Spicer,…