Perkins v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Coukt by

Judge Cammack

— Reversing.

The appellant, Palmer Perkins, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and his sentence fixed at ten years in the State Reformatory. He shot Wheeler Allen in Morgan county late in the afternoon of June 17, 1939. Allen died two days later in a hospital in Johnson county. There had been trouble previously between Allen and a brother of Perkins. Witnesses for the Commonwealth testified that Perkins shot Allen just as he was working on, or had just finished working on, the motor of his car. Perkins claimed that shortly after Allen’s car had been…