Barnett and Barnett v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the-Court by

-Commissioner Sandidge—

Reversing.

Clayton Clemmons and appellants, George and Burnie Barnett, were indicted for murder by the grand jury of Magoffin -county. Appellants, the two Barnetts, father and son, have been tried and found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for seven years. This is-an appeal from the judgment so convicting them.

It appears that shortly after dark on a Sunday night in April, Ed Howard and Edgar Lykins, his son-in-law. started from the home of the former to go to the home of the latter, both riding…