Gulley v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Affirming.

The appellant, John Gulley, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 19 years’ imprisonment for .killing J. K. Stafford on March 11, 1939. A few years previously he had bought a small house and lot from Stafford upon which he erected a blacksmith shop close to the residence. According to the evidence introduced by the defendant, Stafford had done many things to aggravate and antagonize G-ulley. The killing was the culmination of this situation and a previous difficulty. The deceased was on his own side of a wire fence and the…