Hall v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Morris, Commissioner

Reversing.

At about 7:30 p. m., October 16, 1943, appellant shot and killed Ethel Buck. A true bill charged her with wilful murder. Upon trial the jury, returned a verdict of guilty, fixing punishment at confinement for life in the reformatory, and from a judgment in conformity she prosecutes appeal. As the • case comes to us, counsel insists that the judgment should be reversed because the trial court erred to appellant’s prejudice in (1) failing to give an instruction on voluntary manslaughter; (2) in permitting incompetent and prejudicial evidence…