Patrick v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

The appellant and defendant below, Bennie Patrick, was tried in the Magoffin circuit court under an indictment charging him with murdering his wife, Dora Patrick, with an axe, and was convicted by the jury of the offense of voluntary manslaughter and his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for 21 years. From the judgment pronounced on the verdict, after bis motion for a new trial was overruled, he prosecutes this appeal, urging through his counsel as grounds for reversal, (1) the refusal of the court to sustain his motion for a…