Vanhoose v. Commonwealth

MILLIKEN, Judge.

Lincoln Eugene Vanhoose, who was seventeen years of age at the time of the crime, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. The action grew out of a truck-automobile collision early in the afternoon of June 11, 1952, at a point on U. S. 62 in Lawrence County known as “Jim Preston Curve.”

On the morning of the day in question, defendant, accompanied by Claudie Van-hoose and Ova Vanhoose, his cousins, borrowed a two-ton 1946 International truck belonging to the defendant’s father, and proceeded to a garage near Louisa for the purpose…