Hunn v. Commonwealth

*144Opinion op the Coubt by

Judge Settle.

In March, 1910, the appellant, Julian Hnnn, shot George Coffee at Burgin, Kentucky, and the latter died of the wound within five minutes of its. infliction. Appellant was indicted for murder by the grand jury at the May Term of the Mercer Circuit Court and on the trial, which occurred at the same term, he was by the petit jury found guilty of voluntary manslaughter, though the verdict did not in terms so declare, and his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary twenty-one years. Judgment was entered in conformity to the verdict, and appellant…