Jennings v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Clay

Affirming.

In the month of April, 1916, appellant shot and killed John Haddix in the town of Jackson. On the next day he was indicted for murder hy the grand jury of Breathitt county. The first three trials resulted in hung juries. On his fourth trial he was convicted of manslaughter and his punishment fixed at six years.’ imprisonment.

It is first insisted that the verdict is flagrantly against the evidence. The homicide occurred about two or three o ’clock in the morning in a restaurant conducted by appellant’s father. Orville Grose, the first witness for the…