Chapman v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Siler- —

-Affirming.

T. D. Chapman, appellant, convicted of the voluntary manslaughter of one F. W. Perdue and sentenced to 2 years in the penitentiary, brings us this appeal.

The appellant now contends that the judgment is prejudicially erroneous because the trial court (1) should have continued the case and (2) should have directed a verdict for appellant.

Chapman, a freight conductor for Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company for many years, shot and killed F. W. Perdue, a freight engineer and likewise employed by the same company for many years, at the…