Strong v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the -Court by

Chief Justice Thomas—

Reversing.

The appellant, Brown Strong, at bis trial in the Breathitt circuit court under an indictment charging' him with murdering George Watts, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and punished by confinement in the penitentiary for a period of seven years. ITis motion for a new trial was overruled, and from the judgment rendered on the verdict he prosecutes this appeal, relying upon a number of alleged errors as grounds for a reversal, but the only two which we deem of sufficient merit to require our consideration are: (1), The admission…