Thacker v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Drury, Commissioner

Reversing.

By a shot from a shotgun in the hands of Willie Thacker his wife was killed on January 8, 1935. For this he was charged by indictment with murder, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter, and his punishment fixed at twenty-one years’’ confinement in the penitentiary.

On November 9, 1934, Willie Thacker, aged twenty-two, in Harlan county married Beatrice Reynolds, age seventeen of that county. She had been reared in a Baptist Orphans ’ Home near Louisville, was a daughter of Henry Reynolds of Harlan county, and for some unexplained reason is…