Frazier v. Commonwealth

CAMMACK, Chief Justice.

James Frazier was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to five years in prison. The basis of the charge was that Frazier was the driver of an automobile in which Miss Jacqueline Gordon was fatally -injured. On this appeal Frazier concedes there was sufficient evidence to warrant the submission of the case to the jury on an involuntary manslaughter instruction, but insists vigorously that there was not sufficient evidence to warrant its submission under a voluntary manslaughter instruction.

We think Frazier’s position is well taken. If there be another…