Scott v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Van Sant, Commissioner

Reversing.

Appellant was convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to serve twenty-one years in the State Reformatory. His first ground for reversal is that the Court erred in overruling his motion for a directed verdict of acquittal.

Appellant is forty-eight years of age, and previous to an injury he sustained to his back, was engaged in the occupation of mining coal. For several years after his injury, he was engaged as an employee ’ of the Williamsburg Water Plant; but at the time of the homicide, and for two months previous thereto, he was…