Brooks v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Settle

— Reversing.

Under an indictment charging him with the murder of Stanley Gibson, appellant was tried in the court below and convicted of the crime of voluntary manslaughter. Following the return of the verdict, the court by indeterminate sentence and the judgment rendered, fixed his punishment at confinement in the penitentiary not less than two nor more than twenty-one years. Appellant was refused a new trial and has appealed.

The evidence shows that ill-feeling had existed' for several months between appellant and deceased and the latter’s friend, Alvis…