Coots v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Van Sant, Commissioner

—Affirming.

The opinion on the first appeal is reported in 295 Ky. 637, 175 S. W. 2d 139, 140. Therein we reversed the judgment of appellant’s conviction of the crime of manslaughter and sentence of ten years’ confinement in the State Reformatory, upon the ground that the court had erred in permitting the Commonwealth to .introduce incompetent evidence. Because that opinion recites the evidence concerning the circumstances of the homicide, we will refrain from doing so in this opinion. On the last trial, appellant was convicted and sentenced to…