Alley v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Reversing.

James Alley and Joe Williams, on their joint trial,, were convicted of manslaughter and each sentenced to eight years imprisonment. The appellants were deputy sheriffs of Pike County and on this occasion one of them was in uniform. In the performance of their duty, on an early Saturday evening in March, 1942, they started on a tour of beer saloons on Coburn Mountain in the Pond Creek vicinity. They first visited that of Landon Rutherford, the father of Garland Rutherford whom they killed. He was there but nothing out of the ordinary…