Osborne v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Perry —

Reversing.

The appellant, Lucas Osborne, upon his trial in the Garrard circuit court under an indictment for murder, charging him with the killing of Eph Mason, was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to confinement in the.penitentiary for twenty-one years, and, to reverse the judgment rendered upon that verdict, he prosecutes this appeal.

The facts, disclosed by the record, are these:

The appellant, Lucas Osborne, was, at the time of. his shooting and killing Eph Mason, a boy seventeen years of age and living with his sister and…