Baker v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Creal, Commissioner

Reversing.

Under an indictment charging Mm with the murder of JoMi Howard, W. H. Baker has been found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to imprisonment for 15 years. He is appealing.

It is first argued as grounds for reversal that the court erred in summoning jurors from another county without first making a good-faith effort to procure a jury in Leslie county. Neither party made a motion for change of venue or for a jury to be summoned from another county, but, when the jurors on the regular panel were examined, only five qualified. Of the…