Chadwell v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Clay

Reversing.

Tolly Chadwell, Jr., Sam Jones, Victory Jenkins, Emel Cheek, Elmer Whitt, and Shirley Gibson were indicted for the offense of confederating and banding themselves together for the purpose of 'intimidating, alarming, stealing from, robbing, disturbing, or injuring J. D. Parsley, Mrs. J. D. Parsley, Guy Parsley, Mrs. Guy Parsley, Ruby Parsley, and Ethel Bowling. Cheek, Whitt, and Gibson were acquitted, and Chadwell, Jones, and Jenkins, who each received a sentence of one year in the penitentiary, appeal.

It is first insisted that the indictment is…