Turner v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

About 8:30 or 9 o’clock on the afternoon of November 25, 1928, the appellant and defendant below, Cale Turner, shot and killed John Smith in Owsley county. On December 5 following, he was indicted by the grand jury of that county and charged with murdering his victim. At his trial on June 18, 1930, he was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and punished by confinement in the penitentiary for a period of five years. His motion for a new trial was overruled, and from that order, and the judgment pronounced on the verdict, he prosecutes this appeal,…