Partin v. Commonwealth

iOpinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

-Reversing.

Appellants, Mack Partin and W. S. Allen, were- jointly indicted by the grand jury of Harlan county with Marshall Martin (who is now dead), in which they were accused of wilfully murdering Andrew Howard, and upon their joint trial they were convicted of voluntary manslaughter and punished by the verdict of the jury by confinement in the penitentiary for four years each. Their joint motion for a new trial was overruled and they have appealed, urging through their counsel a number of alleged errors as grounds for a reversal of the judgment; but the…