Frith v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Yan Sant, Commissioner

Reversing.

Appellant, Margie Frith,' was indicted by the grand jury of Rockcastle county at its January 1940 term on a charge of murdering her son-in-law, Wilbur Kavanaugh. At the August term she was convicted of voluntary manslaughter with punishment fixed at confinement in the state reformatory for a period of two years. From a judgment based on this verdict she has prosecuted this appeal.

Appellant and her husband operated a tourist camp and filling station on U. 8. highway 25 in Rockcastle county a short distance south of Berea, Kentucky. The…