Oakley v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Hannah

Affirming.

L. M. Oakley was indicted, tried and convicted in the Graves Circuit Court of the crime of horse stealing, and from the judgment of conviction, he appeals.

His chief complaint is that tlje lower court erred in denying to him a new trial upon the ground of evidence discovered after the trial.

To present the parties more closely connected with the crime, we adopt a portion of appellant’s brief. “He (appellant) is now just twenty-one years old, and made his home with his widowed mother at Paris, Tenn., and *475had a married brother living at Murray, an…