Hollon v. Commonwealth

EBLEN, Judge.

The appellant was indicted for the wilful murder of Eveadna Campbell Conway. The trial resulted .in a conviction for voluntary manslaughter and a sentence of imprisonment for twenty-one years. Appellant admitted the homicide and attempted to justify it as self-defense. On this appeal prejudicial error is claimed to have been committed in the admission of certain evidence • and a part of the argument of the Commonwealth’s Attorney.

The immediate events leading up to this tragedy began on the afternoon of May 10, 1957. The appellant was to have taken the deceased to Hazard about…