Ferguson v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Drury, Commissioner

Affirming.

On January 22,1927, Raymond Ferguson slew Float Brown. Ferguson was indicted for murder, was found guilty, and his punishment fixed at imprisonment for life. About 3 o’clock in the afternoon of the day of the homicide, Ferguson assisted in ferrying Brown across the river. When Brown got into the boat, he had a half-gallon fruit jar about three-fourths full of whisky. Brown, Ferguson and one Wm. Burris, who was with him, each took a drink of this whisky. In a spirit of apparent braggadocio, Brown remarked that he had knocked off about three…