Voils v. Commonwealth

Opinion ok the Court by

Commissioner Stanuey

Affirming.

The appellants, Theodore Voils and Bansorn Bryant, have been found guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced to serve five years in the penitentiary. They were charged with the murder of Cash Smith. At the time Voils conducted a garage in Liberty, but Bryant does not appear to have had any regular business or occupation.

One of the grounds relied on to reverse the judgment is that the trial court should have given defendants a peremptory instruction because of insufficient evidence. This ground is not pressed, however, except as to Bryant ; it…