Greer v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Hannah

Affirming.

Appellant, J. K. Greer, an insurance agent, sixty years of age, on July 2, 1914, in Ms office in Paducah, shot and killed Charley Troutman. He was tried and convicted of voluntary manslaughter, his punishment being fixed at an indeterminate sentence of from seventeen to twenty-one years. He appeals.

Miss Pernie Lee Shemwell, who was the only person in the office at the time of the killing, other than the participants, testified that she had been Greer’s stenog.rapher and office assistant for some nine years;' that an engagement of marriage had…