Vanover v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Drury, Commissioner

Affirming.

Appellant, indicted for murder, was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to four years ’ confinement in the penitentiary.

In February, 1922, appellant was at his home, going over the invoice of a stock of goods he had sold when Nelson Mullins entered the room and asked appellant *363•out into the yard. They went to a point behind the kitchen, and after a few moments of talk the deceased became enraged, so 'appellant claims, and ran at him with a knife. Appellant claims to have retreated until he got to his door, over which his…