Lacey v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Perry

Affirming.

On October 14, 1925, the appellant, Dan Lacey, was indicted by the grand jury of the Campbell circuit court charged with the willful murder of Mary Massie. Upon his trial therefor at its July term, 1933, he was convicted of the crime of manslaughter and condemned to serve a sentence of eighteen years in the penitentiary. Hence this appeal, wherein a reversal is asked, first, because it is complained the court erred in overruling appellant’s motion for a peremptory instruction, which he insists should have been sustained, for the reason (a) that the…