PENNINGTON v. COMMONWEALTH


316 S.W.2d 221 (1958)

Pearl PENNINGTON, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

September 19, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Will C. Hoskins, Hyden, Wm. J. Weaver, London, A. E. Cornett, Hyden, for appellant.

Jo M. Ferguson, Atty. Gen., Wm. F. Simpson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


STANLEY, Commissioner.

The appeal by Pearl Pennington is from the conviction of voluntary manslaughter with imprisonment of ten years.

For several years there had been trouble between the appellant, his father and his brother on the one side, and the deceased, Clemme Joseph, and some of his family on the other side over use of a passway. A big fight occurred at the home of Jim Mosley, the deceased's brother-in-law...

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