Thompson v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Clay

Affirming.

Clarence Thompson appeals from a fonr-year sentence for manslaughter.

The facts are fully set out in Ford (Claud) v. Commonwealth, 259 Ky. 492, 82 S. W. (2d) 785, and Ford (Clay) v. Commonwealth, 260 Ky. 138, 84 S. W. (2d) 66. For the purpose of this case, it is sufficient to say that on the night of the first Monday in March, 1934, appellant, Clay Ford, Claud Ford, Otto Ford, Fred Thompson, and the deceased, Sam Hammer, were en route home from Tompkinsville, and all of them were more or less intoxicated and quarrelsome. On reaching a point…