Tucker v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

Appellant, Homer T. Tucker, was convicted in the Taylor circuit court of voluntary manslaughter and punished by imprisonment for two years and one day in the penitentiary under an indictment accusing him of murdering H. P. Turner on May 24, 1946, at about 3 P'. M. in the yard of a cooperage establishment in the city of Campbellsville, Kentucky.

The substance of all the grounds relied on in appellant’s motion for a new trial is, that the evidence was insufficient to support the homicide verdict, and that the court should have sustained his motion for…