Bowling v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Chiep Justice Rees

Affirming.

The appellant, Vess Bowling, has been convicted of the crime of voluntary manslaughter, and sentenced to confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of five years.

Bowling shot and killed Roscoe Howard in the Peoples Hotel in Morehead, Kentucky, on October 3, 1939. Howard rented a room on the second floor of the hotel about 5 o ’clock in the afternoon. About fifteen or twenty minutes later appellant went to the hotel and walked to the second floor. He and his wife had separated and Mrs. Bowling had been employed a few days before the…