Porter v. Commonwealth

*549Opinion op the Court by

Judge Settle

Affirming.

Appellant was, by a verdict of a jury, in the court below, convicted of voluntary manslaughter, his punishment being fixed by judgment of the court at indeterminate confinement in the penitentiary not less than two, nor more than twenty-one years.

The indictment under which appellant was tried charged him with the murder of his step-father, Jake Wright. His motion for a new trial was bottomed on the grounds: 1st, That the verdict was against the law and the evidence; 2nd, that the court failed to properly instruct the jury; 3rd, That the court erred…