Commonwealth v. Moore

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Eagen,

On December 10, 1970, the appellant, J. B. Moore, was convicted by a jury in Mercer County of voluntary *304manslaughter. Post-trial motions were denied, and on June 29, 1972, Moore was sentenced to serve a term of imprisonment of not less than one and one-half and not more than three years in a state correctional institution. He was given credit for two hundred and nineteen days already served in the county jail. This appeal was then filed.

The prosecution followed the fatal shooting of one Ben Jones, in the living room of Moore’s home.1 Moore appeared intoxicated at…