Huffman v. Commonwealth

O. A. Huffman was convicted by a jury of murder in the second degree and his punishment fixed at twenty years in the penitentiary for the killing of Blair Gearheart. He *526asks us to reverse the judgment entered on the verdict on two grounds: (1) The verdict was plainly contrary to the

evidence in that no malice was shown, and the wound which resulted in Gearheart’s death was inflicted in self-defense. (2) The court erred in not excluding the witnesses from the courtroom on the motion of the accused.

A "third assignment, that a new trial should have been granted on the ground of after-discovered…