Hopkins v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Drury, Commissioner

Affirming.

W. D. Hopkins shot and killed Fred Armstrong at about seven o’clock on the evening of August 28, 1924. Indicted for murder, he was convicted of manslaughter, and his punishment fixed at ten years’ confinement in the penitentiary, of which he is now complaining. The defendant, Hopkins, occupied a building on the corner of Third and Main streets in the city of Vaneeburg. In the front of this building on Main street are two rooms, one a lunch room, the other a dining room. Back of the dining room is the kitchen, and back of the lunch room is a…