Howard v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Hobson, Commissioner

Affirming.

Nathan Howard was indicted in the Harlan circuit court for the willful murder of Henderson Ramsey. On the trial of the case he was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and his punishment fixed at fifteen years’ imprisonment. He appeals.'

The proof for the commonwealth showed these facts: Walter Taylor, who operated a store on Puckett’s Creek, on January 7, 1932, called R. C. Mullins, a justice of the peace, over the telephone and told him that Bennie Howard was at his store and disorderly and asked him to come up and have him arrested. The…