Flynn v. Commonwealth

STANLEY, Commissioner.

The principal question on the appeal from a judgment of conviction of voluntary manslaughter with a penalty of five years’ imprisonment is whether the death of a man was caused by blows inflicted by the appellant or by an intervening cause, i. e., whether the undenied facts and circumstances proved by the Commonwealth established corpus delicti in the particular that there was a crime committed, or, as a conclusion of law, proved that a cerebral hemorrhage resulting in his death was from a natural cause.

The appellant, Leamon Flynn, was drinking and in a bad humor, using…