Blanton v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Miller —

Affirming.

The appellant, Thomas Boyd Blanton, appeals from a verdict and judgment of the Harlan Circuit Court by which he was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of from two *813to twenty-one years, under an indictment for the willful murder of his father-in-law, Sam Bailey, on November 14, 1911.

Several years ago Blanton married the daughter of Bailey, and was living with her on one of Bailey’s farms, near the latter’s home. Early in the summer of 1911, Blanton’s wife, expecting to be confined, was, with…