Simmons v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Drury, Commissioner—

Affirming.

Tie appellant, charged with, the murder of Clarence Dugard, was convicted of manslaughter and his punishment fixed at five years’ confinement in the penitentiary. *572Appellant is a young man about 28 years of age, and has been married nine or ten years. He and bis wife and one child lived about one and one-half miles from Glasgow, in Barren county, near the village of Jacksonville. On December 8, 1923, appellant killed Clarence Dugard. Dugard had been living in appellant’s home off and oh for about a year and a half before the tragedy. Prom…