Jennings v. Commonwealth

MILLIKEN, Judge.

James Elmer Jennings, Sr., was convicted of the voluntary manslaughter of his brother-in-law, Albert Ayers, on the evening of Labor Day 1960 in Paducah, and was sentenced to eighteen years in the penitentiary. He had been convicted of felonies on seven previous occasions. Apparently, there had been no previous ill feeling between him and his brother-in-law at whose home he had lived for nearly two months immediately prior to the incident which led to the death of Mr. Ayers about two weeks later.

The decedent and his wife lived in a small five-room house accompanied by their *829son,…