Williams v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Perry

Reversing.

In 1933 Isaac Simpson was shot and killed in Wallins, Harlan county, Ky. The .shot that killed him was fired from the home of Jasper Williams. Shortly thereafter Jasper Williams and his son, Paul Williams, who-lived there with his father, were jointly indicted by the-Harlan 'county grand jury, charging them with murder..

Upon trial they were convicted of voluntary manslaughter. Upon appeal the- judgment was reversed and. cause remanded for a new trial. All the material facts of the case and issues presented by the record and decided upon that appeal…