Lewis v. Commonwealth

Opinion op. the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

The appellant, Mack Lewis, was convicted in the Floyd circuit court of voluntary manslaughter and punished with two years’ confinement in the penitentiary at the trial of an indictment accusing him of wilfully murdering Casey Newsome. The homicide occurred in the village of Drift in Floyd County on March 1, 1946, in the late afternoon at the residence- of the deceased. There were two trials, the first one resulting in a hung jury, but at the second one he was convicted with affixed punishment as above stated.

Appellant’s motion for a new trial…