Tackett v. Commonwealth

Opinion ok the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

In the afternoon of Sunday, September 16, 1928, appellant, Henry Tackett, who was 39 years of age, killed his cousin, Bob Jones, who was 20 years of age, by cutting and stabbing him with a knife. The homicide occurred in the road in front of the residence of George Tackett, an uncle of appellant, on Frasure creek in Floyd county. At the following term of the Floyd circuit court, appellant was indicted and charged with murder. At his trial thereunder he was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and punished by confinement in the penitentiary for a…