Clem v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 5 — INDICTMENT APPEAL FROM HARLAN CIRCUIT COURT. cited Criminal Code, sec. 220 ; 1 Greenleafs Ev., page 208-9 ; Warnock vs. Commonwealth, MS. opin. June 1856; Meredith vs. Commonwealth; Adwell vs. Commonwealth, 17 B. Mon. 310. cited Criminal Code, secs. 334, 335; Roscoe's Crim. Ev., pp. 56, 57.
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE DUVALL
delivered the opinion of the court:
The appellant was indicted for the murder of Benjamin Er-vine, was found guilty, and from the judgment of conviction, rendered by the court below, has prosecuted this appeal.
Many of the objéctions taken to the proceedings are not embraced by either of the four classes of errors for which this court is authorized, by law, to reverse a judgment of conviction, and such objections will not, therefore, be noticed.
It is insisted, on behalf of the appellant, that the circuit court committed errors to his prejudice in admitting important evidence against…
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- Waddle v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1876