Wilson v. Commonwealth

Opinion- op the Court by

Judge Hobson

Affirming.

A. A. Wilson shot and killed Alfred Hendricks. He was indicted for murder; on a trial of the case he was fonnd gnilty of manslaughter, and his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for twenty-one years. The facts leading np to the homicide as shown by the Commonwealth are briefly these: Wilson lived with his brother, who had a telephone on the same line with Hendricks. Wilson used abnsive language over the telephone to Hendricks and Hendricks had a warrant issued against him for disorderly conduct. They had been *2on bad terms for some…