King v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Rees

Reversing.

Raymond King appeals from a judgment convicting him of voluntary manslaughter and -fixing his punish ment at sixteen years’ confinement in the penitentiary. It was charged in the indictment that he killed J. C. Lindon by carelessly, negligently, and wantonly driving an automobile upon and over Lindon.

The tragedy occurred shortly after noon on September 12, 1933, near the intersection of Main and "Washington streets in Campton, the. county seat of Wolfe county. Appellant was nineteen years of age at 'the time and was a resident of Breathitt…