Anderson v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Grigsby

Affirming.

On May 4, 1929, George Horn, who was a deputy peace officer of Prestonsburg, Ky., was shot and killed by appellant, Frank Anderson, near the city limits of Prestonsburg. Upon a trial before a jury in the Floyd circuit court, appellant was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to twenty-one years in the state penitentiary. That judgment was reversed by this court in an opinion reported in 232 Ky. 159, 22 S. W. (2d) 599, where a full statement of the evidence for and against the defendant may be found. The evidence was substantially the same on…