Case ID: ky-op_10/html/0427-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge FIines :", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

John F. Hawes v. Commonwealth.
    Criminal Law — Failure to Instruct.
    Where in the trial of a homicide case it is proper for the court to instruct the jury as to the law of involuntary manslaughter, and he fails to give such instruction, such failure cannot avail the appellant where the evidence is conclusive that appellant shot with intention to kill, for the failure to give the instruction could not therefore have prejudiced the rights of appellant.
    APPEAL FROM BALLARD CIRCUIT COURT.
    January 6, 1880.
   Opinion by

Judge FIines :

We find no brief for appellant in this case, and after a careful reading of the record see no error of the court below in the admission of testimony nor in the giving of refusing of instructions. The only thing, that in any aspect of the case could be' pomplained of, is the failure of the court below to instruct the jury as to the law of involuntary manslaughter; but that, cannot avail. appellants because the evidence is conclusive that appellant shot with the intention to kill, and therefore the failure to give such instruction could not have been prejudicial.

Bugg & Bishop, for appellant.

P. W. Hardin, for appellee.

Judgment affirmed.