Skillern v. Commonwealth

REED, Justice.

James H. Skillern was convicted by a jury on two separate counts of voluntary manslaughter, the jury fixing his punishment at five years in the penitentiary on each count. Skillern appeals from a judgment entered in accordance with the jury verdict. His sole basis for asserting prejudicial error concerns the admissibility of evidence. In our view, he has not established prejudicial error and we are powerless to disturb the judgment.

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