Pennington v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Richardson

Affirming.

The grand jury of Bell county indicted Isaac Pennington and Odell Pennington for the crime of murder committed by tlie killing of Beatrice Cox, age fifteen. On the ground that he was under the age of seventeen, the prosecution was abated as to Odell Pennington. On a trial before a jury, Isaac Pennington was convicted, his punishment fixed at confinement in the state reformatory for twenty-one years, and a judgment was entered accordingly.

The facts are: Henry Pennington was the father of Isaac and Odell, and with them resided within fifty feet…