Eversole v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Settle

Reversing.

The appellant, Emma Eversole, was tried in the court below under an indictment charging her with the murder of her husband, Mack Eversole, but by the verdict of the jury was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter, upon which judgment was duly entered fixing her punishment at confinement in the penitentiary not less than two nor more than twenty-one years; and from that judgment she has appealed.

She asks a reversal of the judgment on the following grounds: First, that the indictment was defective; second, that the circuit court erred in admitting as…