Norton v. Commonwealth

*91Opinion op the Court by

Judge 'Settle

— Reversing.

Upon their joint trial in the Rockcastle circuit court, under an indictment charging them with the murder of Walter Rice, whom, they admittedly shot and killed, the appellants, Horace Norton and Zade Norton, brothers, by verdict of the jury and judgment of the court, were each convicted of the lesser crime of voluntary manslaughter, and the punishment of each fixed at confinement in the penitentiary seven years. They, jointly and severally, moved for a new trial in the court below supported by the same grounds, the overruling of which motion as…