Woods v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner—

Affirming.

The appeal is by John Woods from a conviction of manslaughter and sentence to 21 years imprisonment for the killing of Robert Asher on August 6, 1939. The grounds submitted as requiring a reversal of the judgment are absence of jurisdiction of the Clay circuit court; the admission of incompetent evidence, and error in giving an instruction on conspiracy and qualifying the self-defense instruction,

The indictment returned by the grand jury of Olay county was of John, Ted and Warren Woods. The defendants filed a petition for a change of…