Speaks v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Winn

Reversing.

Appellant, upon an indictment in the Daviess .Circuit Court charging him with the murder of Mose Davis, was found guilty by the jury of voluntary manslaughter; whereupon it was adjudged that he be confined in the penitentiary from two to twenty-one years. He appeals. The facts are very brief. Upon a Sunday a couple of negro men were in a public road, the one in a buggy and the other standing talking with him. While they were' thus engaged, the appellant, Speaks, and the deceased, Mose Davis, came walking up to the buggy. The man in the buggy noticed…