Washington v. Commonwealth

OPINION of the Court by

Judge Lassing

Reversing.

Fannie Washington, a girl under twenty-one years of age, was indicted in the Mason Circuit Court, charged with murder. Upon a trial she was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter. Her counsel asked that she he sentenced to the house or reform, as provided by section 2095a, subsection 19 a, Kentucky Statutes, until she had reached her majority. This the court refused to do, hut sentenced her to confinement in the penitentiary under the indeterminate sentence act. No stay of proceedings was asked, and she is now serving an indeterminate sentence in…