Spencer v. Commonwealth
Spencer v. Commonwealth
Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
This was an indictment for murder, with a conviction for manslaughter and a sentence to the penitentiary for five years. The complaint on the appeal is that the evidence is not sufficient to sustain the verdict, and that the instructions were misleading by reason of their prolixity and unintelligibility. There is evidence from which the jury would have been authorized to find the accused guilty of murder, and such finding could not have been disturbed by this court, although we might conclude that the evidence considered as a whole would have justified an acquittal on the ground of self-defense. When there is any evidence tending to establish guilt in criminal cases we have no power to reverse
Judgment affirmed.
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