Peay v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

The grand jury of Christian county returned an indictment against the appellant, Jim Peay, a colored man, charging him with murdering his wife on December 25, 1916. Upon trial, under a plea of not guilty, the petit *397jury returned a verdict convicting him of voluntary manslaughter and fixing his punishment at two years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

Various objections to the verdict and judgment are made in the motion for a new trial which the defendant filed, but his counsel in this court rely chiefly and almost exclusively upon the ground that…