Johnson v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Clay

Affirming.

This is an appeal from a judgment convicting appellant of manslaughter, and fixing his punishment at five years’ imprisonment.

Appellant lived on the head of Left Beaver in Floyd county." About noon on April 28, 1932, he shot and killed his daughter, Tina Smith. Several months before, Tina, who had killed her husband, was convicted of manslaughter, and recently the judgment had been affirmed. Smith v. Commonwealth, 241 Ky. 842, 45 S. W. (2d) 490. Shortly before the homicide she and her father had gotten into a scuffle, and she jerked him over a slop…