Faulkner v. Commonwealth

CULLEN, Commissioner.

J. B. Faulkner appeals from a judgment sentencing him to a term of ten years and one day in the penitentiary pursuant to a verdict finding him guilty of voluntary manslaughter. We are reversing the judgment because of errors which in cumulative effect deprived the appellant of a fair trial.

Faulkner owned a restaurant, filling station, grocery store, rooming house and rental house, and was building a dwelling, on property on a dead-end road. One Robert Hayes rented the rental house from him. On an afternoon in August 1965 Robert Hayes, his brother Richard Hayes, and one…