Hickey v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

The appellant, Hickey, upon his trial in the Whitley circuit court, under an indictment for murder, charging him with killing Riley Bray, was convicted of the offense of voluntary manslaughter and his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for two years, and to reverse the judgment rendered upon that verdict he prosecutes this appeal.

Numerous errors are relied upon in the motion for a new trial as grounds for setting aside the judgment, some of which we regard, as will hereafter appear, as meritorious, while others are clearly…