King v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Chief Justice Carroll—

Affirming.

Appellant, King, was indicted by the grand jury of Perry county for the murder of his wife, Amanda King, by shooting and killing her with a loaded pistol. When put upon a trial, he was found guilty by the jury of manslaughter, and his punishment fixed at confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of twenty-one years.

On this appeal, he asks a reversal of the judgment upon the grounds that: (1) the verdict was palpably against the weight of the evidence; (2) that the court erred in failing to instruct the jury as to the whole law of…