Kratzwald v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

At the April, 1942, term of the Boyle circuit court the appellant, Rudolph Kratzwald, was indicted charged with murdering James Plummer, a deaf-mute. His trial thereunder was continued from term to term until the regular one in September, 1943, when he was convicted of voluntary manslaughter with an attached punishment of five years’ confinement in the penitentiary. His motion for a new trial was overruled and judgment rendered, to reverse which he prosecutes this appeal relying solely on the ground that the evidence was insufficient to sustain a…