Newsome v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

— Affirming.

At Ms trial in the Floyd circuit court under an indictment charging him with murdering Oscar Daniels, the appellant and defendant below, Robert Newsome, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter, and punished by confinement in the penitentiary for a period of 15 years. His motion for a new trial was overruled, and on this appeal from that order it is argued in brief of his counsel that the court erred (1) in overruling the demurrer filed to the indictment; (2) in the admission and rejection of testimony, and (3) in the instructions submitted to the…