Nelson v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

On December 10, 1922, appellant, Gold Nelson, shot and killed Bill Stone in a public road on Emily fork of Wolf -creek in Martin county. He was indicted by the grand jury of the county charged with murder and on his trial was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to serve a term of twenty-one years in the penitentiary. His motion for a new trial was overruled, and from the judgment pronounced on the verdict he prosecutes this appeal. Numerous alleged errors are contained in the motion, but many of them are abandoned on this appeal and…