Taylor v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner—

Reversing.

Emmit Taylor appeals from a conviction of manslaughter and sentence of five years’ imprisonment for the killing of Luke Hampton on March 2,1938.

Taylor, with a young man called “Shorty” Smith, was living in a small building, which had once been a restaurant, near the railroad station on the edge of Barbourville. Seven or eight men and two women were there drinking. Hampton had been there an hour or so previously and seems to have been in a fighting mood so that Taylor had insisted that he leave. Another man had enticed him out. He returned…