Hatfield v. Commonwealth

Opinion op trie Court by

Yan Sant, Commissioner

— Affirming.

Appellant, James Hatfield, was convicted of the crime of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to confinement at hard labor in the state reformatory at La Grange, Kentucky, for 12 years.

The victim of the tragedy was W. L. Stock, a resident of Williamson, West Virginia. Mr. Stock and his wife had taken dinner away from home on the evening of February 2, 1941. After dinner they drove across the Tug river bridge into Kentucky. According to the testimony of Mrs. Stock, her husband stopped their car for the purpose of permitting her to…