Godby v. Commonwealth

CULLEN, Commissioner.

Phillip Godby and his brother Mike were tried jointly on homicide charges growing out of the death of Teddy Hardwick. Phillip was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and was given a 10-year sentence. Mike was found guilty of aiding and abetting in the commission of voluntary manslaughter and was given an 8-year sentence. They appeal from the judgment of conviction, asserting numerous grounds of error. Since one of those grounds is that the evidence was not sufficient to support conviction, we shall give a brief statement of the evidence.

The killing occurred at a point…