Gross v. Commonwealth

OpiNioN op the Court by

Chief Justice Rees

Affirming.

Troy Gross has appealed from a judgment sentencing him to twenty-one years’, imprisonment for the crime of manslaughter. He insists that the judgment should be reversed because the verdict is flagrantly against the evidence, „ incompetent evidence was admitted over his objections, and the instructions are erroneous.

Appellant shot and killed Clarence Combs on Sunday afternoon, September 24, 1933. On the same day religious services had been held in a cemetery near their homes, and both were present. Combs was accompanied by three young women,…