Davis v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner—

Affirming.

The appellant, Jack Davis, alias Berry Brewer, has been sentenced to death for the murder of Abram Combs

Whatever weakness there may have been in the chain of circumstances and obscurity in the case as developed by the Commonwealth, they were strengthened and cleared by the testimony of the defendant. It was that in Breathitt County, where they lived, he, Ben King and Walter Riley had conspired to kidnap and tie up a certain man who boarded with King’s sister, obtain a check for $1,500 from him, cash it and escape. King and Riley were…