Farmer v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Rees

Affirming.

Appellant, Cleve Farmer, was tried in the Harlan circuit court upon an indictment charging him with murdering Orville Farmer, and he was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and punished by confinement in the penitentiary for a period of five years.

The sole ground urged on this appeal for a reversal of the judgment is that the trial court erred in failing to give to the jury an instruction defining defendant’s right to defend his home.

Briefly stated, the facts are these: Cleve Farmer and the deceased, Orville Farmer, were brothers-in-law; the former…