Duff v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Rees

Affirming.

The appellant, Ira Duff, was indicted for the willful murder of his father-in-law, Nick Combs, and upon his trial was convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced, to a term of two years in the penitentiary.. He urges, on this appeal that the verdict is not sustained by the evidence and that the trial court erred in failing to give the whole law of the case when instructing the jury.

The crime of which appellant was convicted was. committed more than ten years before the trial.

Appellant married a daughter of Nick Combs and. lived in a house owned…