Abbott v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 102 — INDICTMENT FOR HOMICIDE APPEAL PROM TRIMBLE CIRCUIT CCKURT. 1. On refusal to give insanity instructions: Brewer v. Com., 11 Ky., L. R., 601; Soott v. Com., 4 Met., 227; Bishop Crim. Law, vol. 1, 383h, 387 (ed. 1892). 2. On refusal ito admit evidence of insanity: Brown v. Com., 14 Bush, 398; Massie v. Com., 15 Ky. Law Rep., 562: Cotrell v. Com.,- 13 Ky. Law Rep., 306; Montgomery v. Com., 88 Ky., 509; Phelps v. Com., 17 Ky.
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Case 102 — INDICTMENT FOR HOMICIDE APPEAL PROM TRIMBLE CIRCUIT CCKURT. 1. On refusal to give insanity instructions: Brewer v. Com., 11 Ky., L. R., 601; Soott v. Com., 4 Met., 227; Bishop Crim. Law, vol. 1, 383h, 387 (ed. 1892). 2. On refusal ito admit evidence of insanity: Brown v. Com., 14 Bush, 398; Massie v. Com., 15 Ky. Law Rep., 562: Cotrell v. Com.,- 13 Ky. Law Rep., 306; Montgomery v. Com., 88 Ky., 509; Phelps v. Com., 17 Ky. Law Rep., 706. 1. Competency of opinions as evidence of insanity: Ky. Crim. Law & Proc., sec. 975; Underhill om Ev., sec. 188, p. 271; Same, sec. 97, p. 287. 2.…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE HOBSON
delivebed the opinion of the coubt.
Appellant, Sam S. Abbott, was indicted in the Trimble Circuit Court for the murder of Thomas Craig; and having been found guilty of manslaughter, and Ms punishment fixed at fifteen years in the penitentiary, he prosecutes this appeal.
*626Appellant is a bachelor, thirty-four years of age. He had several brothers and two sisters. The younger sister, named Huston, was seventeen years of age. Appellant was very fond of this sister. In the words of one of the witnesses: “He idolized her. There was nothing she wished for that he would not grant, and there…
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