Jones v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

Upon his trial tinder an indictment for voluntary manslaughter wherein he was accused of killing Dewey Smith, the appellant Russ Jones was convicted and his punishment fixed at a term of five years ’ confinement in the penitentiary, upon which judgment was pronounced. Defendant’s motion for a new trial, which contained about fifteen reasons why it should be granted, was overruled and he prosecutes this appeal. Many of the specified reasons in the motion are extremely technical and, we think, wholly immaterial, and in the course of this opinion we…