Young v. Commonwealth

PALMORE, Judge.

Hershel Young appeals from a judgment sentencing him to life imprisonment pursuant to a verdict finding him guilty of murder. KRS 435.010. His only ground for reversal is that the trial court committed prejudicial error in attempting to explain to the jury the word “feloniously” as it appeared in the instruction covering murder and voluntary manslaughter. The instruction was as follows:

“If the jury believe from the evidence in this case to the exclusion of every reasonable doubt that the defendant, Hershel Young, in Fayette County, Kentucky and before the finding of the…