Prince v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Yan Sant, Commissioner

Affirming.

Upon conviction of voluntary manslaughter for killing Parris Sloan, appellant was sentenced to the State Reformatory for a period of 21 years. He contends the judgment should be reversed, because (1) the verdict was flagrantly against the evidence; and (2) a statement attributed to him, and testified to by one of the witnesses, was incompetent and highly prejudicial. The first contention calls for a brief resume of the evidence.

In the late evening of July 4, 1944, appellant and Sloan were engaged in a game of cards near the garden of…