Newsome v. Commonwealth

STEWART, Chief Justice.

Appellant, Goebel Lee Newsome, was indicted for the wilful murder of Lawrence Robinson. He was convicted in the Pike Circuit Court of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to 21 years in the penitentiary.

The evidence for the Commonwealth established that Newsome and his co-defendant, Roy Branham, and Lawrence Robinson and Ireland Robinson, the latter two being brothers, got together about 5:00 p. m. on *175the afternoon of November 11, 1960. They visited a number of places including a road house before going to the home of Charles “Bit” Elswick on the top of a remote…