Harris v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Commissioner Sandidge

Reversing.

Tried under an indictment which charged him with murder, appellant, McKinley Harris, was found guilty of manslaughter and his punishment was fixed at confinement in the state penitentiary for 21 years. He prosecutes this appeal from the judgment of that court so convicting him.

But one reason assigned for a reversal of the judgment appealed from possesses sufficient merit to require its consideration. McKinley Harris shot and wounded Harve Pace on November 30,1925. The latter did not die until the 18th day of February, 1926, two months and…