Calico v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Settle

Affirming

This appeal is prosecuted from a judgment entered upon a verdict finding the appellant, John Calico, guilty of voluntary manslaughter; has punishment, as provided by the judgment, being confinement in the penitentiary not less than two nor more than twenty-one years. The indictment, under which appellant’s conviction occurred, charged him with the murder of Irvin May. Waiving unnecessary details, the salient facts of the homicide were, that on January 18th, 1911, appellant, his twin brother, Wm. Calico, and the deceased, Irvin May, a first cousin,…