Penix v. Commonwealth

Judge Rees

Affirming.

The appellant, Paris Penix, has been convicted of the crime of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to serve a term of two years in the penitentiary. The indictment charged that while operating an automobile on the highway he did so in such a negligent, reckless, careless and wanton manner as to cause it to collide with an automobile occupied by Mrs. Dixie Gilland and to causé her death.

*589The collision between the two automobiles occurred about 4:30 or 5 o’clock in the afternoon on December 24, 1948, on Highway No. 23 several miles south of Pike-ville. Harry Gilland and his…