Samuels v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Carroll

Reversing.

The appellant, a negra, under an indictment charging * bim with the murder of Ben Covington, also a negro, was convicted and his punishment fixed at death. On this appeal we are asked in his behalf to reverse the judgment of conviction because the trial court erred in refusing to grant a continuance and in overruling the motion for a new trial asked upon the ground of newly discovered evidence.

Samuels and Covington were farm hands employed by Mr. Coleman, a farmer living some miles from Elk-ton, the county seat of Todd County. Samuels had been…