Cooley v. Commonwealth

VANCE, Commissioner.

The appellant was indicted for murder and upon trial was convicted of voluntary manslaughter for the death of his brother resulting from a knife wound inflicted by appellant. He was sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for a period of ten years.

On this appeal the appellant contends that the trial court erred (1) by excluding competent testimony from the jury, (2) by refusing to give a specific instruction upon the appellant’s defense that at the time of the stabbing he was suffering from psy-chomotor epilepsy and did not know what he was doing. He further contended…