Coppage v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 20 — INDICT JIE'NT — APPEAL ER03 HAEMSOE CIRCUIT COURT. CITED— 2 Met., 391; Rutherford vs. Commonwealth. 2 Duvall,- 531; Hudson vs. Commonwealth. 1 Green leaf on Hv., sec. 220, fe. 2 Met., 24 ; Champ vs. Commonwealth. 3 Met., 13; Burns vs. Commonwealth.
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE ItOJJHltTvSON
delivered the opinion oe the court:
Sentenced to the penitentiary for two years on an indictment for tlie arson of a church, the ippellant seeks *533a reversal of the judgment of conviction on the sole ground of imputed error in impressing on the jury incompetent evidence.
After the constable, who apprehended him, had testified that he freely confessed his guilt, his counsel, for the sole purpose, as avowed, of showing that witness’s self-contradiction or frailty of memory, offered his own written statement of his testimony before the examining court which he had subscribed after…
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