Jones v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

The appellant, Eich Jones, was convicted in the McCreary circuit court at the trial of an indictment accusing him of hog stealing, the jury fixing his punishment at one year’s confinement in the penitentiary.

After his motion for a new trial was overruled he prosecuted this appeal, relying chiefly for a reversal on grounds (4) and (5) as incorporated in his motion for a new trial; but no reference whatever is made in counsel’s brief to grounds (1), (2) and (3) incorporated therein. Ground (1) is, in substance, the same as ground (4). Grounds (2) and…