Stanfill v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

On bis trial under an indictment charging Mm with murdering Worley Furgeson, the appellant, Everett ■Stanfill, was -convicted of voluntary manslaughter and punished by confinement in the penitentiary for twenty-one years. His motion for a new trial was overruled and from the judgment pronounced upon the verdict he prosecutes this appeal, urging as grounds for a reversal of the judgment, (1), that the verdict is contrary to the evidence, (2), error committed by the court in its instructions to the jury, and (3), improper remarks of counsel for the…