Peace v. Commonwealth

OPINION op the Court by

William Rogers Clay

Commissioner

Affirming.

Appellant, B. C. Peace, was indicted for murder. The jury found him guilty of voluntary manslaughter, and he was given an indeterminate sentence of from two to twenty-one years in the penitentiary. From the judgment- of conviction he appeals.

The homicide took place on July 22, 1910, about 9 o’clock p. m., at the residence of Scott Moore, who lived on Poplar Creek, in Whitley County, about a quarter of a mile from the county road. Abe Harris, the man who was killed, was a son of Scott Moore’s wife, Sarah Moore, by a former…