Sizemore v. Commonwealth

PALMORE, Judge.

Alonzo Sizemore, charged with the wilful murder of Manuel Bentley, was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and his penalty fixed at 21 years in the penitentiary. He appeals.

The tragedy occurred at the American Legion Club in the town of Fleming, in Letcher County, on the night of March 4, 1960. Trial was had in Pike County under a change of venue. Sizemore, a deputy sheriff of Letcher County, was the landlord of the premises and lived upstairs over the club. On the evening in question the decedent and his brother, Roy “Karo” Bentley, both having imbibed of alcoholic…