Fore v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Rees

Reversing.

Robert Ott Fore bas been convicted of tbe crime of manslaughter and bis punishment fixed at imprisonment for a term of 21 years. He shot and killed W. E. Dority on tbe night of September 19, 1941.

Appellant and Dority lived in Knox county near tbe corporate limits of tbe city of Corbin and were neighbors, but apparently were not acquainted. Dority bad lived in tbe neighborhood only two weeks before bis death. He was employed as a coal miner at Louellen in Harlan county and worked there during tbe week, returning to bis home near Corbin for tbe week…