Grant v. Commonwealth

STEWART, Justice.

Appellant, Ray Grant, was indicted at the October term, 1950, of the Madison Circuit Court, charged with the wilful murder of Charlie Isaacs, and at a trial on October 18, 1950, he was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for 21 years. He appeals, urging the following . grounds for reversal:(1) Because incompetent evidence was admitted to show that he was guilty of other crimes than the one for which he was tried; (2) because the commonwealth’s attorney waved before the jury a photograph of deceased which showed…