HARRIS v. COMMONWEALTH


389 S.W.2d 907 (1965)

Eugene HARRIS, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

April 30, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clyde L. Stapleton, Jackson W. White, Lexington, for appellant.

Robert Matthews, Atty. Gen., John B. Browning, Joseph H. Eckert, Asst. Attys. Gen., Frankfort, for appellee.


CULLEN, Commissioner.

Eugene Harris was sentenced to life imprisonment upon a verdict finding him guilty of murder in having inflicted upon Frank Johnson a stab wound that caused Johnson's death. On this appeal from the judgment of conviction Harris asserts as his sole ground of error the failure of the trial court to give an instruction on voluntary manslaughter.

The only evidence as to the circumstances of the stabbing was the testimony of the witness John...

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