Crowe v. Commonwealth

MONTGOMERY, Judge.

Gail Powell Crowe was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to confinement for twenty-one years. On appeal she urges that the evidence is insufficient to support the verdict and the instructions were erroneous.

Appellant was charged with the murder of Shirley Turner at the Crowe Restaurant in Winchester on the night of August 28, 1965. Gail and her husband, Kenneth, operated the restaurant in which beer was sold. Shirley and her husband, Asbury, went to the restaurant about 8:20 p. m.

Kenneth Crowe served each of them a bottle of beer. After they started to drink…