Posten v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

On a Tuesday night in August, 1924, between eight and eight-thirty o’clock p. m., in the -city of Bowling Green, the appellant and defendant below, Herman Posten, shot and killed Leslie Turner, a colored man, for which he.was indicted and charged with murder. Upon his trial he was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and punished by confinement in the penitentiary for a period of twenty-one years. The court overruled his motion for a new trial' and from the judgment pronounced on the verdict he prosecutes this appeal and relies for a reversal solely…