McCollum v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Sandidge, -Commissioner

—Affirming.

Appellant, Matt McCollum, indicted for murder and found guilty of manslaughter by the jury that tried him, prosecutes this appeal from the judgment of the Madison circuit court imposing a sentence of 21 years in the penitentiary as his punishment, that being the penalty fixed by the verdict of the jury. The facts of the case briefly are these: Appellant and his wife had been separated about two weeks, and about ten days previous to the homicide she had sued him for divorce and attached all his property. ' After the separation she went…