Greer v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Settle.

Affirming.

The appellant, J. K. Greer, was tried and convicted in the McCracken Circuit Court of the crime of voluntary manslaughter, under an indictment charging him with the murder of one Charlie Troutman, and his punishment fixed by verdict of the jury and indeterminate judgment •of the court, at confinement in the penitentiary from seventeen to twenty-one years. His motion and grounds for a new trial having been overruled by the circuit court, he prosecuted an appear from the judgment of conviction to this court, which, by an opinion rendered April 29,…