Hornsby v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

At Ms trial in the Madison circuit court, under an indictment charging him and others with murdering Ikey Davis Jones, appellant was convicted of voluntary manslaughter with an attached punishment of imprisonment in the pemtentiary for ten years. His motion for a new trial was overruled and from the judgment of the court he prosecutes tMs appeal.

The motion for a new trial relied on nine alleged errors as sufficiently prejudicial to authorize this court to reverse the judgment, but four of them are abandoned by appellant’s counsel in their brief…