Hubbard v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Reversing.

R. "W. Dyche died of a heart attack. Robert Hubbard has been adjudged guilty of killing him and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment on a charge of voluntary manslaughter. The trial was had in Jackson County on a change of venue.

Hubbard was at home on furlough from the army in August, 1945. He was arrested for being drunk in a public place and taken before the County Judge of Laurel County. Being too drunk to be tried, he was ordered to jail, but refused to go peaceably. Dyche, the jailer, and Newman, a deputy, took hold of him. The…