Roop v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Robinson

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Affirming.

This case comes on appeal from the Bell circuit court, wherein one Charley Roop was indicted and tried for the killing of John Grubbs and given a manslaughter sentence of 21 years.

*830On Sunday afternoon, November 4, 1923, a number of miners had congregated on the front porch of Coleman’s commissary at Pox ridge, a small mining camp in Bell county, which spot seemed by common consent to have been the gathering place where miners spent their leisure hours. The building had a front porch about eight or nine feet above the ground with a number of steps…