Adams v. Commonwealth

Ollie Adams, Jr., was indicted for the murder of Walker A. Jordan, was convicted by a jury of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary in accordance with the verdict. He was granted a writ of error. His assignments of error number 23 but in his brief they are resolved into four questions concerning the sufficiency of the evidence, the refusal of an instruction, the admission of certain testimony, and the argument of counsel.

The defendant admitted the slaying but claimed it was done in self-defense. The evidence as the jury could have evaluated it presented the…