Hensley v. Commonwealth

VANCE, Commissioner.

The appellant was convicted of the offense of involuntary manslaughter in the first degree and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. He presents two questions on this appeal. First, he claims that the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict and secondly, that the trial court erred in giving an instruction on wilful murder.

The appellant admitted that he was intoxicated; that he fired several shots from a .38-caliber pistol from a moving vehicle and that he knew there was a group of men in the vicinity of the place where he fired the shots. Although he claimed to…