Carson v. Commonwealth

SIMS, Justice.

Armstrong Carson was tried for the willful -murder of Noah Hollon. He was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for 15 years. Three grounds are assigned by him for reversal of the judgment: 1. The verdict is flagrantly against the evidence; 2. incompetent evidence was admitted over defendant’s objection; 3. competent evidence offered by defendant was excluded.

The tragedy occurred on a public road in a remote section of Wolfe County about five o’clock in the afternoon of Sunday, Aug. 20, 1950. A little over a year previous…