Watts v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Dawson

Affirming.

Hiram Watts, who shot and killed Cager Gwinn, has appealed from a judgment convicting him of voluntary manslaughter and fixing his punishment at two years imprisonment.

The only ground urged for reversal of the judgment is that the court failed to give the jury the whole law of the case in that it refused to give an instruction on the defense of Watts’ home.

The shooting took place at appellant’s home on Ten Mile, a creek in Perry County. On the day of the crime the deceased and his brother, Tom Gwinn, had been hunting, and each carried a 12 gauge…