Temple v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 52 — INDICTMENT APPEAL PROM ALLEN CRIMINAL COURT. (Briefs have been misplaced.)
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE COFER
delivered the opinion op the court.
The appellant was indicted and tried for the murder of Robert Moore, and found guilty of the crime of manslaughter, and adjudged to be confined in the penitentiary for a period of six years and four months. From that judgment he prosecutes this appeal.
We perceive no objection to the instructions given to the jury by the court. They presented, with more than ordinary brevity and perspicuity, the law of murder, manslaughter, and self-defense, and are free from subtile definitions which *770too frequently tend to mislead and confuse rather than to…
2Cited by34 opinions
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- Commonwealth Ex Rel. Milewski v. AsheSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1950
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