Baker v. Commonwealth

MILLIKEN, Judge.

The appellant, Ralph Baker, was indicted for the murder of his brother-in-law, Robert Jones, in a shoot-out in Leslie County, and was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to serve twenty-one years in the penitentiary, the maximum penalty for the offense. We affirm the conviction.

The victim, Robert Jones, and his brother, Russell Jones, two young men in their early twenties, drove to town around noon in Robert’s truck to purchase a stereo tape player for installation in one of their vehicles, and about 2 P.M. returned to a store operated by another…