Legal Opinion

Held v. Commonwealth

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided February 7, 1919PublishedCited by 19 opinions

Appeal from Daviess Circuit Court.

1Opinion of the Court

*210Opinion op the Court by

Judge Clarke

Affirming.

The appellant is appealing from a judgment convicting him of involuntary manslaughter and fixing his punishment at confinement for twelve months in jail and the payment of a fine of $500.00 for driving or forcing an automobile over or against Ernest Combs, a fifteen year old boy, early in the afternoon of Monday, April 8,1917, upon a public street in the city of Owensboro, thereby inflicting injuries from which the latter died within a few hours thereafter.

The errors assigned are the trial court did not instruct the jury upon the whole law…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Chrystal v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1873
  2. Sparks v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1867

3Cited by19 opinions

  1. Jones v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1926
  2. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. SextonCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1932
  3. Bartlett v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 1977
  4. State v. McCombWyoming Supreme Court · 1925
  5. State v. BarnettSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1951

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