Dixon v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by Chief

Justice Rees

Affirming.

The appellant, Aaron Dixon, has been convicted of the crime of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for a term of five years. The indictment under which he was tried charged that by his gross carelessness, recklessness, and negligence he ran a motor vehicle into an automobile occupied by various persons and killed four of its occupants. The jury was instructed on voluntary and involuntary manslaughter. On this appeal it is argued that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the verdict of guilty of voluntary…