Donnellan v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 74 —INDICTMENT APPEAL PROM BOURBON CIRCUIT COURT. CITED Statute of 23 Henry VIII. (1531), as to Homicides. Bishop on Criminal Procedure, side-page 503. 1 Russell on Crimes, side-pages 440,447. Wharton on Homicide, Selfridge’s case, 417-18. 2 Bishop on Crimes, note 1, side-pages 729, 723. 1 ibicl. 25 Mississippi, 383, Preston v. The State. 4 Dev. & Bat. 491, State v. Hill. Criminal Code, sections 275-6, 334.
1Opinion of the Court
JHDGE HARDIN
delivered the opinion op the court.
The appellant, having been tried, convicted of the crime of manslaughter, and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for two years, on an indictment for the murder of William H. Woollums, prosecutes this appeal for a reversal of the judgment.
It appears that in a rencounter in the city of Lexington, Woollums was shot by the appellant and killed; and with reference to the facts and circumstances of the killing, as disclosed on the trial, the court, in instructions given to the jury at the instance of the commonwealth, ruled and decided, in…
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