Smith v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Logan

Reversing.

The appellant shot and killed his father-in-law, Albert Caudill, in Greenup county, in March, 1928. Appellant was about 18 years of age when he married a daughter of Albert Caudill in April, 1927. She was about the same age. The parties lived in and about Russell, Ky. On Monday, March 19, 1928, appellant and his wife went to her father’s and spent the night, returning to their home in Russell the next day. On Wednesday they went to the home of his parents, and on that night he left the home of his parents, saying that he was going fox hunting. His…