Grubbs v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Olay

Affirming.

Sol Grubbs appeals from a judgment convicting Mm of manslaughter, and fixing Ms punishment at ten years’ imprisonment.

The facts are these: Grubbs and the deceased, Silas Mills, were neighbors, and lived on Middle Fork of Stinking creek, in Knox county. Shortly before the homicide, Grubbs had driven Mills’ hogs out of his garden and the hogs were injured by a dog belonging -to Grubbs. On the day of the homicide Grubbs and his brother-in-law, George Bargo, a boy fourteen years of age, were wallring along the public road. The boy was carrying a shotgun.…