Skidmore v. Commonwealth

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

The appellant, Roy Skidmore, was inflicted, tried and convicted in the Harlan circuit court of carrying concealed upon his person a deadly weapon, to-wit, a pistol. His motion for a new trial was overruled followed by this appeal. His grounds for a new trial, as set out in his inotion therefor, are: (1) admission of incompetent and prejudicial testimony by the Commonwealth, (2) in refusing competent and material evidence offered by him, and (3) error in instruction to the jury. We find no merit in grounds (1) and (2), but ground (3) is dynamic in its effect upon the…