Lucas v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Lassing

Affirming,

Ed Lucas was indicted in the Fayette Circuit Court for the murder of James Keyes. Upon trial, he was found guilty and given an indeterminate sentence of two to twenty-one years in the State penitentiary. In the motion for a new trial in the lower court, several grounds were assigned, hut here counsel for appellant seeks a reversal solely upon the ground that the trial court erred, to his client’s prejudice, in limiting him in argument to- thirty minutes. It is insisted that, in presenting the defense for one charged with murder, the time *496allowed…