Hoskins v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Lassing

Reversing.

On June 1, 1910, G-arfield Hoskins shot and killed Harrison Hargis, in Beattyville, Lee County, Kentucky. Shortly thereafter he was indicted in the Lee Circuit Court for willful murder. When the case was called for trial counsel for the accused demurred to the indictments ; but this was overruled. He was three times put upon his trial, with the result that the jury failed to agree; but upon his fourth trial, held at the June term of court, 1911, he was found guilty of manslaughter, and his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for…