Jones v. Commonwealth

*534Opinion op the Court by

Judge Carroll

Affirming.

This appeal is prosecuted by the appellant in an effort to obtain a reversal of a judgment fixing his confinement in the penitentiary for a term of not less than two or more than twenty-one years. He was charged with the murder of Grholston Hendon and convicted of voluntary manslaughter and it is strongly contended that a new trial should have been granted on the ground that the evidence was not sufficient to sustain a verdict.

It must be admitted that the weight of the evidence shows that the homicide was committed in self-defense, and if we were…