Seymour v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Dietzman

Affirming;

From a judgment adjudging him guilty of the offense of wilful murder and imposing the penalty of death, the appellant appeals.

The facts of the homicide are admitted. The deceased, Wm. Schanzenbacker, was a scale tender for the St. Bernard Coal Company in its coal yards in Louisville, Ky. He collected each day a large sum of money for sales of coal, and it was his custom on quitting in the late afternoon to take his daily receipts home with him in a tin box. There worked in the coal yards with him a man by the name of Huddelston, the father of Wm.…