Shearer v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Siler

Affirming.

From a judgment convicting him of the voluntary manslaughter of Charles Masters with penalty of two years confinement in the penitentiary, Willis S. Shearer now takes this appeal.

Grounds assigned for reversal are: (1) error in admission of a purported dying declaration as competent evidence and (2) error in rejection of other competent evidence offered by this appellant and (3) error in failure to instruct the jury on emotional insanity.

Willis S. Shearer drove up to a filling station in or near Richmond in the afternoon of June 22, 1945. There he…