HOCKER v. COMMONWEALTH


262 S.W.2d 824 (1953)

HOCKER v. COMMONWEALTH.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

December 11, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Spragens, Lebanon, for appellant.

J. D. Buckman, Jr., Atty. Gen., Zeb A. Stewart, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


CAMMACK, Justice.

George Hocker was sentenced to five years in prison for killing Sam Haggard with a pistol. On this appeal he insists he is entitled to a new trial because of the injection of evidence into the case tending to prove him guilty of a crime other than the one for which he was being tried.

Both of the parties were colored. Hocker is a small man, 60 years of age, who said he was in poor health. Haggard was a large man, some 36 years of age. The...

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