Pennington v. Commonwealth

STANLEY, Commissioner.

The appeal by Pearl Pennington is from the conviction of voluntary manslaughter with imprisonment of ten years.

For several years there had been trouble between the appellant, his father and his brother on the one side, and the deceased, Clemme Joseph, and some of his family on the other side over use of a passway. A big fight occurred at the home of Jim Mosley, the deceased’s brother-in-law, during which twenty or twenty-five shots were exchanged by the participants. Not only Joseph but also an old man who lived with Jim Mosley, an innocent bystander, was killed. The…