Chenault v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

— Reversing.

On the night of October 28, 1939, the appellant, Floyd Chenault, in Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, shot with a pistol and killed Roy Mason — they both being colored, and the appellant being 24 years of age and the deceased 27 years of age. On the 9th of November following the homicide the grand jury of Montgomery county returned an indictment against appellant accusing him of wilful murder, and on his trial — which the court forced to be held on the next day — he was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and punished by confinement in the penitentiary for…