Clark v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Commissioner Tinsley—

Affirming.

Tlie appellant was convicted of voluntary man•slaughter, and sentenced to the penitentiary for 21 years. He is, as he is called by his counsel in their brief, a “merchant farmer,” residing in McCreary county. For the crop year of 1926 he rented to one Gale Taylor, father <of the deceased, a field near his residence, on which Grale. Taylor had planted’ and raised a crop of corn that year. On Thanksgiving Day, 1926, Gale Taylor, with his son, the deceased, Cain Taylor, his father-in-law, Richard Taylor, and brother-in-law, George Hughes,…