Traynor v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Chiep Justice Hobson—

Affirming.

John Traynor was indicted in the Jefferson Circuit Court for the murder of Charles Comstock. On the trial of the case before a jury, he was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter, and his punishment fixed at confinement in the • penitentiary for not less than two nor more than twenty-one years. He entered a motion for a new trial, on the ground of newly-discovered evidence, and the motion being overruled, he appeals.

The only ground relied on for reversal is that the court should have granted a new trial on account of the newly discovered…