Logan v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Dietzman

Affirming.

Indicted for murder, the appellant was convicted of the offense of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to serve eight years in the penitentiary. From this judgment, he appeals.

The homicide out of which this prosecution arose occurred on election day in 1928. The appellant, a boy about 18 years old, in the early morning of that day, had gotten into an argument with Otis Owens over the possession and ownership of a dog. The quarrel took place in front of a schoolhouse which was being used as a voting' place for the Grassy Creek voting precinct.…