Allen v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Logan

Affirming.

The appellant Bobert Allen, was indicted for murder and convicted of manslaughter and his punishment fixed at 21 years in the penitentiary. He killed George Doyle. The facts are brief. Appellant and Marie Davis lived together. She left him and went to the home of her mother at the corner of Twentieth and Walnut streets in the city of Louisville. Doyle had a trucking business with headquarters at the same corner. His place fronted on Twentieth, and the place of the mother of Marie Davis fronted on Walnut, with the result that the back yard was common…