Jones v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Rees

Reversing.

The grand jury of Floyd county returned an indictment against the appellant, Mattie Jones, charging her with the crime of murder committed by maliciously shooting and killing Frank Jones, and upon her trial she was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and her punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of fifteen years and one day.

A number of grounds are relied upon for a reversal of the judgment, but the only one we deem necessary to consider is the alleged error of the trial court in refus ing to sustain appellant’s motion for a…