Carpenter v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Drury, Commissioner

Affirming.

Horace Carpenter has appealed from a judgment imposing' upon him twenty-one years in the penitentiary for the slaying of Willard Monhollon.

The Facts.

This homicide occurred about 2:30 p. m. Sunday, 'October 7, 1934, under circumstances that are sharply disputed.

If those detailed in the evidence for the commonwealth be true, the accused is to be congratulated on escaping the electric chair; while, if those for defendant be true, he perhaps reasonably thought this slaying necessary to save his own life.

■Slayer and slain were young unmarried men…