Hall v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Perry —

Affirming.

Greenbury Hall was indicted in the Floyd circuit court for the murder of Edgar Boyd, and on the. trial of the case was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and his punishment fixed at confinement at hard labor in the state reformatory at Frankfort, Ky., for the period .of 19 years. ' . . '

The appellant’s motion and grounds for a new trial being overruled, he prosecutes this appeal, seeking the reversal of the judgment.

It appears that in this case the appellant was first indicted at the September, 1930, term of the Floyd circuit court for the…