Napier v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Thomas

Reversing.

The appellant, A. C. Napier, at his trial under an indictment in the Floyd circuit court charging him with embezzlement as denounced by section 1202 of our present Kentucky Statutes, was convicted and punished by confinement in the penitentiary for one year, and, complaining of the verdict and judgment pronounced thereon, he prosecutes -this appeal, after his motion for a new trial was overruled. A number of grounds were stated in the motion for a new trial, as alleged errors sufficient to reverse the judgment, but only one of them we deem…