Hall v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Chief Justice Hurt — .

Affirming.

Hiram Hall stabbed with a knife and killed Allen Cob lins, near a schoolhouse, upon a road, which ran along Dry creek, in Knott county.' He was indicted for the crime of murder, and after two mistrials arising from the failure of the jury to agree, he was put upon trial 'before a jury from the county of Floyd, which found him guilty of the crime of voluntary manslaughter, and fixed the penalty for the crime at confinement in the state reformatory for the period of four and one-half years, and he has appealed.

The theory of, the…