Wright v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Ratliff—

Reversing.

David T. Wright has appealed from a judgment of the Marion circuit court sentencing him to life imprisonment for the murder of R. C. Henderson.

The grounds urged for a reversal of the judgment are: (1) The evidence is insufficient to sustain a verdict of murder; (2) improper argument of counsel for the commonwealth; and (3) the court erred in failing to instruct the jury on the whole law of the case.

The facts of the case are, in substance, as follows: Appellant, who was twenty years of age, was .living as .a tenant on the property of the…