Wireman v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Settle

Reversing.

The appellant, Joe Wireman, September 17, 1923, shot and killed Bill Wireman in Magoffin county near the mouth of Salt Lick creek, a tributary of the Licking "river. September 21st, an indictment was returned against him in the Magoffin circuit court by the grand jury charging him with the murder of Bill Wireman; and on his trial in that court for the crime charged, which began September 26, 1923, the appellant, by verdict of a jury, was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and his punishment fixed at confinement for a period of ten years in the…