Roberts v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Drury, Commissioner

Reversing.

Chester Roberts has appealed from a judgment imposing- upon him three years’ confinement in the penitentiary for manslaughter.

The Facts.

Friday, September 6, 1935, was relief day in Hazard, Ky., and a number of men, women, and children had congregated in and about the Armory or Dix building- which is situated on the west side of East Main street in that city, whereat relief was then being distributed.

Roberts had bought a secondhand Chrysler sedan a day or so before, and on this morning he had driven from his home at Allock in Clay county to…