White v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 79. — PROSECUTION AGAINST WILLIAM WHITE FOR MURDER. Appeal from Boyd Circuit Court. S. G-. Kin nee,, Circuit Judge. Defendant convicted of voluntary manslaughter and appeals.
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CASE 79. — PROSECUTION AGAINST WILLIAM WHITE FOR MURDER. Appeal from Boyd Circuit Court. S. G-. Kin nee,, Circuit Judge. Defendant convicted of voluntary manslaughter and appeals. POINTS RELIED UPON FOR REVERSAL. 1. The court erred in striking out the testimony of appellant at the end of the case, that Lane had cut him with a knife and that another time had assaulted him with a club. 2. The Court erred in allowing the Commonwealth, on cross-examination of apellant, to ask White if at the time Lane cut him with a knife he was not attempting to assault Lane with a meat cleaver. 3. The appellant…
1Opinion of the Court
*702Opinion op the Court by
Judge Settle
Reversing.
The appellant, "William White, was indicted and tried in the Boyd circuit court for the murder of George Layne, whom he shot and killed in the city of Catlettsburg. A verdict was returned by the jury finding him guilty of voluntary manslaughter and fixing his punishment at confinement in the penitentiary for 10 years. He complains that numerous errors were committed, to liis prejudice, by the lower court on the trial, and asks a reversal of the judgment of conviction on account thereof.
The homicide occurred in Damron’s saloon under the following…
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