Brown v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Turner,

Commissioner— Affirming.

Appellant, being indicted charged with the murder of Henry Hines, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, and appeals.

The evidence not authorizing it, the trial court declined to instruct on murder, but submitted the case to the jury under instructions for voluntary and involuntary manslaughter.

Appellant and decedent were very intimate friends, and had been for some years. . One of them was 25 and the other 23 years of age, and they worked together in the railroad machine shops at Somerset. Out of working hours they spent much of their…