Taylor v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Perry

Affirming.

Upon trial on an indictment charging the appellant with the murder of Sam Allen, he was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and his punishment fixed at seven years confinement in the penitentiary.

His appeal is before us, wherein he assigns as errors committed by the court entitling him to a reversal (1) that it admitted incompetent testimony; (2) that the verdict is flagrantly against the evidence; and (3) that the court failed to instruct the jury upon the whole law of the case.

The facts as disclosed by the record are that on a Sunday evening in…