Steele v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner—

Reversing.

The appellant, Lena Steele, shot and killed her husband, Walter Steele, in Frankfort on the evening of December 23, 1931. A judgment of conviction of voluntary manslaughter, carrying a sentence of five years in prison, was reversed because of improper argument of counsel representing the commonwealth. Steele v. Commonwealth, 252 Ky. 730, 68 S. W. (2d) 6. This appeal is from a similar conviction with fifteen years’ imprisonment as the penalty. The judgment must also be reversed.

Proof of the defendant’s guilt consisted of some threats made…