Turner v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Sandidge

Reversing.

Appellant, Lillie Turner, has been convicted of manslaughter and sentenced by judgment of the Leslie circuit court to confinement in the penitentiary for 13 years. She prosecutes this appeal from that judgment.

It is insisted for her that the verdict is not sustained by, but is flagrantly against, the evidence; hence that the trial court erred in not sustaining her motion for a new trial upon that ground'. To this contention we cannot agree. She was convicted of manslaughter for her connection with and participation in the slaying of Matt…