Lay v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Drury, Commissioner—

Affirming.

The appellant, -whom we shall refer to as the defendant, seeks by this appeal to reverse a judgment imposing upon him seven years’ confinement in the penitentiary for manslaughter. We shall make no special statement of the facts as this is a second appeal and the facts will appear in Lay v. Com., 186 Ky. 163, 216 S. W. 123. The defendant was first convicted in July, 1919; his motion for a new trial was overruled, and he appealed to this court. We reversed the judgment, awarded him a new trial, and issued a mandate to that effect. The trial…