Callahan v. Commonwealth

Douglas Callahan, having been indicted for the murder of David Emmett Jones, was tried by a jury, convicted of voluntary manslaughter, and his punishment fixed at five years in the penitentiary. We granted a writ of error to review the judgment entered upon that verdict.

The main assignment of error is that the evidence is insufficient to support the verdict. The record shows that on Saturday, December 3,1949, between the hours of 9:30 and 10 o ’clock p. m., Douglas Callahan, the accused, and his 27-year-old son, ‘ Tessie, ’ ’ stopped at a restaurant, beer and wine dispensary in the town of…