Trout v. Commonwealth

Wilbur F. Trout was indicted in the Circuit Court of Warren county for the first degree murder of Harvey Saffell. He was convicted by a jury of involuntary manslaughter, and his punishment fixed at four and one-half years in the State penitentiary. That verdict was approved by the trial judge, and is now before us on a writ of error.

There are five assignments of error. The first assignment covers the motion of the accused to set aside the verdict of the jury, and to grant him a new trial because, as set out in bill of exceptions number one, the verdict was contrary to the law and the…