Kinder v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Rees —

Reversing.

John Kinder, John Bain, and Harvey Cain were jointly indicted for the murder of Grant Leddington, and on his separate trial Kinder was convicted of the crime of manslaughter and sentenced to a term of 21 years in the penitentiary. He first insists that the evi Senee for the commonwealth was insufficient to authorize a submission of the case to the jury and that the trial court erred in overruling his motion for a peremptory instruction. Grant Leddington and Claude Leddington, brothers, 22 and 24 years of age, respectively, were killed at a filling…