Slaughter v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court,by

William Rogers Clay, Commissioner.

Affirming.

On February 4, 1912, Tom Slaughter, a negro boy 19 years of age, shot and killed Lee Jenkins, a white man 48 years- of age. On the first trial of the case the jury found Slaughter guilty of murder and fixed his punishment at death. From a judgment entered in conformity with the verdict he prosecuted ‘an appeal. The judgment was reversed and the cause remanded for a new trial. Slaughter v. Commonwealth, 149 Ky., 5. On the return of the case another trial' was had, and the jury again found him guilty of murder and fixed his…