Stegall v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Creal, Commissioner

Affirming.. On a trial for the murder of George Thompson in the Carter circuit court, appellant, Jess Stegall, was convicted of voluntary .manslaughter, and his punishment fixed at confinement in the state penitentiary for a period of ten years.

In his motion and grounds for a new trial, a number of alleged errors were' assigned, but some of these seem to have been abandoned, and we shall only consider such alleged errors as are discussed and relied on for reversal,-as indicated by brief of appellants counsel, and these shall be discussed in the order…