Curtis v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Commissioner Drury

Affirming.

About 2:30 in the afternoon of Christmas Day of 1929, Wilda Curtis slew Virgil Otis by cutting or stabbing him. Curtis was charged.by indictment, with murder, and upon his trial under that indictment was found guilty of manslaughter and his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for 21 years. Upon this appeal be insists the court erred, to his prejudice, in the exclusion of evidence offered by him.

On January 6, 1930, the mother of the man slain sued Wilda Curtis for $10,000 for .the death of her son, and upon his trial for murder…