Turner v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Dietzman

— Affirming.

The appellant was convicted of the offense of voluntary manslaughter, and sentenced to serve ten years in thé penitentiary. He appeals from the judgment.

The first ground relied upon for reversal is that the verdict is flagrantly against the evidence. The proof of the commonwealth established that the deceased, John Mullinax, had some time prior to his death been in a shooting affray, in which he was so severely wounded that his left arm was practically useless, and the rest of his body was in a very crippled condition. He owned a little farm in…