MOORE v. COMMONWEALTH


264 S.W.2d 272 (1954)

MOORE v. COMMONWEALTH.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

January 29, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Earle Cassady, Jasper H. Preece, Inez, for appellant.

J. D. Buckman, Jr., Atty. Gen., Zeb A. Stewart, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


MILLIKEN, Justice.

Isaac Moore, twenty-six years of age, was convicted of the crime of voluntary manslaughter and given the minimum sentence of two years in the reformatory for the killing of Albert Chaffin, Jr., by running into him with an unloaded Ford pickup truck on Highway No. 40 in Martin County, March 1, 1952, about "dusk dark" that Saturday evening. The sole ground urged for reversal is the refusal of the trial judge to instruct on sudden emergency

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