Hatfield v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court bt

Judge Dietzman

— Reversing.

Appellant was charged by indictment with the willful murder of his wife, and on his trial was convicted of the offense of voluntary manslaughter. From the judgment sentencing him to serve ten years in the penitentiary for that offense, he appeals.

It was the theory of the commonwealth that the appellant shot and iálled his wife during a heated quarrel. It was the theory of the appellant that the shot which killed his wife was accidentally fired by him while he was loading a shotgun. As grounds for reversal, appellant urges errors in the…