Hunt v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Tilford

Affirming.

Tlie appellant was indicted for the murder of Ona. Hunt, convicted of voluntary manslaughter, and sentenced to five years imprisonment. He appeals, urging that the evidence'was insufficient to take the case to the jury, and that in any event, the Court committed reversible error in failing to instruct the jury on involuntary manslaughter.

Ona Hunt and the appellant were first cousins, and on the night of the killing, Ona was very drunk. So belligerent had been his attitude that his wife and several of his companions, all of whom had been drinking,…