Holcomb v. Commonwealth

*374Opinion op the Court by

Judge Dietzman

Affirming.

Under an indictment charging him with murder, the appellant was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to confinement for sixteen years in the penitentiary, from which judgment he appeals.

The evidence shows that the deceased, Jim Ison, who' lived in Harlan county, was visiting during the Christmas holidays, 1923, his father, Philip Ison, who lived in Letcher county. The appellant knew this, since he saw Jim Ison at the neighborhood general store a day or so before Ison was killed. On Christmas Eve, 1923, after dark, the appellant…