Nolan v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Perry

Reversing'.

On January 9, 1935, tlie grand jury of Jackson county returned an indictment against the appellant, Fred Nolan, charging him with the murder of Wash Hensley, and, on his trial thereunder, he was convicted of the crime of voluntary manslaughter and his punishment fixed at imprisonment for twenty-one years.

In the motion and grounds made for a new trial, some twelve assignments of error were made. Two of the alleged grounds therein recited are by defendant’s counsel here expressly abandoned in brief, as being without merit. Some of the ten remaining…