Sizemore v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Clarke

^Affirming.

The defendant, John Sizemore, indicted for murder and convicted of manslaughter, complains -of numerous rulings of the court in the admission and rejection of evidence; that the verdict of the jury is flagrantly against the evidence, and that he was entitled to a new trial because of newly discovered evidence.

Fred Kennedy, the deceased, was a deputy -sheriff, and accompanied by Will Smith, who was acting as his *684guide, was summoning witnesses -in Bell county near the Clay county line, on December 22, 1921. As they were going down Mud Lick branch of…