Piper v. Commonwealth

HILL, Judge.

This is an appeal from a verdict and judgment of the Muhlenberg Circuit Court finding the defendant, Tim Pete Piper, guilty of voluntary manslaughter and fixing his punishment at confinement in the state penitentiary for two years.

Appellant relies upon the following grounds for a reversal:

1. The court erred to the prejudice of the rights of the defendant in failing to give an instruction on involuntary manslaughter.

2. The court erred in overruling motion of defendant for a directed verdict at the close of the proof for the Commonwealth, and again at the close of the whole case.

For…