Scott v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Dawson

Reversing.

Henry Scott was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to 21 years.in the penitentiary. This is the second appeal in this case. On the former appeal we reversed a judgment of conviction of manslaughter. See Scott v. Commonwealth, 301 Ky. 127, 190 S. W. 2d 345. Therein we directed the lower court, if the evidence was the same upon another trial, to direct the jury to return a verdict of not guilty.

The facts are fully set out in our former opinion and. need not be repeated in detail.

Appellant’s chief ground for reversal is that the…