Shelton v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Commissioner Stanley—

Reversing.

The appellant, George Shelton, under an indictment charging him with the murder of Lee Bain, has been convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to serve six years in the penitentiary. The material facts of the case are these: The appellant was a deputy sheriff of Bell county. The homicide occurred in the late afternoon on the day following the general election in November, 1927, and it is in evidence that Bain and Squire Harvey Hopkins, one of the magistrates of Bell county, had been imbibing rather freely of moonshine whisky until a late…