Hunter v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Sandidge

Affirming.

Appellant, June Hunter, has been convicted of murder, and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for life. The appeal is prosecuted from the judgment of the Harlan circuit court so convicting- him.

The reasons urged why the judgment should be reversed make it necessary only briefly to summarize the facts. Wager Wilson, a deputy sheriff of Harlan county, had certain warrants of arrest in his hands for appellant. He and Fielden Stanton were in an automobile together and saw appellant a short distance away. The deputy sheriff called to…