Collett v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Yan Sant, Commissioner

—Affirming.

For the killing of John Mason, Odell Collett was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to the State Reformatory for a term of 7 years. He has appealed from the judgment.

In the late afternoon or evening of October 1, 1942, Jesse Jones, who was City Clerk of Pineville, obtained a warrant for the arrest of John Mason and Silas Slusher, night chief of police and night patrolman, re spectively, of the City of Pineville. The warrant charged the offense denounced by KRS 437.110, a felony commonly referred to as banding together for an…