Patrick v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by Chief

Justice Thomas

Reversing.

The grand jury of Wolfe county returned an indictment against appellant and defendant below, Roy Patrick, charging him with the crime of murder by maliciously shooting and killing Tol Craig, and upon his trial under a plea of not guilty he was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and punished by confinement in the penitentiary for a period of six years. His motion for a new trial was overruled, and he has appealed and relies, through his counsel, on a number of grounds for a reversal of the judgment, the material ones of which will be…