Hemphill v. Commonwealth

PALMORE, Judge.

Parker Hemphill appeals from a judgment of the Knox Circuit Court entered pursuant to a jury verdict finding him guilty of voluntary manslaughter and fixing his punishment at 21 years’ imprisonment. KRS 435.020. This is the second appeal in the same case, a previous con*957viction having been reversed in Hemphill v. Commonwealth, Ky., 379 S.W.2d 223 (1964). The indictment was for wilful murder.

All of the grounds advanced in support of the instant appeal concern the formation of the jury, which was summoned from Laurel County following an unsuccessful effort to empanel a jury from…