Case ID: ky-op_6/html/0288-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Pryor:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Martin Flannigan v. Commonwealth of Kentucky.
    Appeal — Reversal—Sufficiency of Evidence.
    The Court of Appeals has no power to reverse a judgment upon a conviction for a felony on the ground that it is contrary to the evidence.
    APPEAL FROM MeCRAOKEN CIRCUIT COURT.
    January 10, 1873.
    
      T. H. Burke, for appellant.
    
    
      Attorney General, for appellee.
    
   Opinion by

Judge Pryor:

This court has no power to reverse a judgment upon a conviction for a felony because it is against the evidence. There are no instructions in the record and, the indictment being good, the judgment must stand.

Judgment affirmed.