Rowe v. Commonwealth

MONTGOMERY, Judge.

Edwin Darrell Rowe was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to fifteen years’ imprisonment. He appeals and urges that: (1) He was erroneously refused a jury challenge; (2) the jury was improperly selected; (3) a statement made by him was erroneously admitted in evidence; and (4) certain evidence was erroneously rejected.

Rowe shot and killed Sam Bates on July 30, 1963. The scene of the shooting was Rowe’s fishing camp and restaurant near Blair Lake on Cumberland River. Rowe admitted that he was engaged in “bootlegging” there at the suggestion of Bates, who was to…