Brown v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Affirming.

Neither of the grounds relied upon to reverse the judgment of voluntary manslaughter with two years ’ imprisonment can be sustained. One is that the evidence is not sufficient to sustain the conviction, and the other, that there was a prejudicial error in an instruction.

All of the witnesses were introduced by the Commonwealth except the defendant himself. Lugene Campbell, the owner of a taxicab at Estill, had his driver, the defendant, Robert Lee Brown, called Buster Brown, to start on a journey to Ashland on the evening of May 2, 1947.…