Childers v. Commonwealth

Opinion oe the Court by

Judge Carroll

— Reversing.

The appellant, Nora Childers, under an indictment charging her and Nelson Berry and Joe Berry with the murder of Charles Childers, was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter, and from the judgment on the verdict she prosecutes this appeal, asking for a new trial.

The deceased, Charles Childers, and the appellant, Nora Childers, had been married about eleven years, and were living together in the city of Barbourville as husband and wife at the time of his death, in December, 1912, which resulted from wounds inflicted by pistol shots while he was…