York v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Chiee Justice Thomas

Reversing.

The grand jury of Pike county returned an indictment against appellant, Della York, Columbus Hensley, and Estill Hensley, wherein the three were accused of murdering Roby Williamson. A separation of trials was requested and granted, and the commonwealth elected to try appellant, at which she was convicted by the jury of voluntary manslaughter and punished by confinement in the penitentiary for two years. Her motion for a new trial was overruled, and she prosecutes this appeal, and in brief of her counsel all the grounds relied on in the…