Moore v. Commonwealth

OPINION op the Court by

Judge Miller

Affirming.

In April, 1909, between eight and nine o’clock at night, the appellant, Dick Moore, shot and killed Jesse Cooley at Mayfield. Moore was indicted for murder, and his first trial resulted in a verdict convicting him of voluntary manslaughter, with a punishment of eight years’ confinement in the penitentiary. The circuit court granted him a new trial, and, upon the second trial, he was again convicted of voluntary manslaughter, and his punishment was fixed at five years’ confinement in the penitentiary; and from a judgment upon that verdict, he…