Crawford v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Rees

Reversing.

Ed Anderson, Wade Eastridge, and the appellant, David Crawford, were indicted for the murder of Floyd Turner, and, on his separate trial, David Crawford was convicted and his punishment fixed at death. The indictment charged a conspiracy, and that in pursuance -of such conspiracy and while it existed David Crawford shot and killed the deceased.

Floyd Turner operated a taxicab in the city of Middlesboro, and at about 7 o’clock on Saturday evening, April 6, 1935, a young’ man approached the taxi, which was parked on one of the main streets of…