Lester v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Drury, Commissioner

Affirming.

Jim Frank Lester seeks to reverse a judgment imposing upon him an imprisonment of 21 years for manslaughter. About 9 p. m., August 13, 1930, Hiram Fee was shot and he died a few minutes thereafter. On August 18, 1930, Hon. D. C. Jones, judge of the Twenty-Sixth judicial district, called a special term of the Bell circuit court to begin in Pineville, Ky., on Thursday, August 28, 1930, and directed that a grand jury be drawn, and summoned for that term to investigate this and other crimes.

August 30, 1930, the grand jury so impaneled returned…