Burnett v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Moorman

Affirming.

"Warren A. Burnett killed Grant -Shinn on -a street in Beattyville about eight o ’clock on an evening in Sep*766tember of 1922. He was tried in the Lee circuit court, convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to confinement in the state penitentiary for twelve years. His motion and grounds for a new trial having been overruled, he has appealed to this court, assigning various errors for a reversal of the judgment.

The account of the homicide as related by appellant is that shortly before'the shooting he met his daughter on the street, who told him that…