Taul v. Commonwealth

STANLEY, Commissioner.

The appeal of Dennie Taul is from a conviction of voluntary manslaughter, with a penalty of two years’ imprisonment, for the killing of Franklin Armes on August 31, 1950. The appellant urges that he was entitled to a directed verdict of acquittal. The Attorney General does not argue otherwise, but merely passes the record up to us.

The deceased and his two boys, while squirrel hunting, got their automobile stuck in a creek. The defendant, their neighbor, came and helped them to get it out. They and others who had come to the place stood around talking and shooting at a…