Shelton v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

At about 6 o’clock a. m., on August 14, 1932, W. B. Chamberlain, a farmer in Webster county, was assaulted, shot, otherwise wounded and robbed of $1,826 shortly after he entered his barn to feed his stock on that morning. The actual perpetrators of the crime who were then present and participated in it were Earl Pemberton and Clayton Scott, the latter of whom appears to have been temporarily residing in Evansville, Ind., while Pemberton was a roaming character with no settled home. The appellant and defendant below, J. Z. Shelton, was, and had been…