Webb v. Commonwealth

BIRD, Judge.

Reed Webb was charged with murder. He was tried and convicted of manslaughter. His punishment was fixed at fifteen years in the penitentiary. This Court reversed an identical judgment rendered on the first trial of this case. Errors therein assigned are not involved here. Webb v. Com., Ky., 314 S.W.2d 543.

This is a case of patricide. The killing occurred at the home of the father. The record discloses that the father, the appellant’s brother and mother, and the appellant himself were living there. Appellant coming home from work found his father and brother there. The father was…