Bowling v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner—

Reversing.

Ike Bowling appeals from a conviction of manslaughter and sentence of 15 years’ imprisonment. He submits he was entitled to a directed verdict of acquittal and that the instructions are erroneous.

It is necessary to look to the evidence for the defense for a story of the tragedy. The Commonwealth’s evidence was only that Bowling had asked a neighbor to notify the officers that he had killed a man and wanted to surrender, and when the County Attorney and others arrived at his home they found Mart Harness on the floor mortally wounded by…