Adkins v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner.Reversing.

Ernest Adkins appeals from a conviction of manslaughter, with a penalty of six years imprisonment, for the killing of Russell Ward. The case is unusual .in that there is no contradiction as to the substantial and essential facts.

Adkins and his cousin, Edward Cooper, young men of Magoffin County, went to Paintsville on January 3, 1941, and that evening to what is called “Club Royal” in the edge of the city. They were invited into a room, apparently adjoining the main one, by the proprietor, Orien Salyer, or his wife, and sat there by the…