Goff v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Drury, Commissioner

Reversing.

On February 13, 1931, in a shooting affray, at a magistrate’s court in Pulaski county, Hobart Goff .and Oather Poynter, each shot and seriously wounded the' other. Goff recovered, and Poynter died. Goff and his father were by indictment charged with murder, and, upon his separate trial, Hobart Golf was convicted of manslaughter, and his punishment fixed at four years in the penitentiary.

In the trial court, he urged eight grounds in support of his motion for a new trial; his motion was overruled, and he is now urging those eight grounds for a…