Hopkins v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Miller

Reversing.

The appellants, William Hopkins and Henry Hopkins, were convicted of manslaughter, committed in October, 1914, since the present indeterminate sentence law became effective. Ky. Stats. (Ed. 1915), sec. 1136. That statute provides that if the jury find the defendant guilty, they shall fix and render against him an indeterminate sentence or judgment of imprisonment in the penitentiary for an indefinite term, stating in the verdict the minimum and maximum limits thereof, and that the court shall render a judgment in conformity with such…