Patton v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Rees

Affirming.

The appellant, Bill Patton, has been convicted of the crime of voluntary manslaughter, and sentenced to a term of two years in the penitentiary. The indictment under which he was tried charged that while operating a motor vehicle in a negligent, reckless, and wanton manner he drove the automobile over Raymond Sidwell and killed him. Sidwell, a soldier on furlough, was driv ing an automobile toward Monticello, Kentucky, when, according to the evidence for the Commonwealth, a truck driven by appellant approached from the opposite direction at a…