Raney v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Tileord

— Reversing.

The appellant was indicted for murder, convicted of voluntary manslaughter, and sentenced to twenty-one years imprisonment. His victim was Archer Moore, twenty-three year old popular football player, who had attended Western State Teachers College intermittently for several years. The killing took place on the streets of Bowling Green in the early morning hours of March 31, 1940, after appellant, a railroad policeman, had pursued in his car and forced to the curb an automobile in which Moore and several men. and women student companions had fled…