Kehoe v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Settle

Reversing!

Appellant was convicted in the court below under an indictment charging him with the crime of wilfully and feloniously setting fire to and burning a public prison at Central City, and by sentence and judgment . of the court, his punishment was fixed at confinement in the penitentiary at from seven to twenty-one years. He complains of the judgment and asks for its reversal upon the grounds—

First — That the evidence did not authorize his conviction.

Second — That the jury were improperly instructed in that-the trial court did not give them all the law…