Ballard v. Commonwealth

John H. Babb was a farmer and had lived all his life in. Nansemond county, with whose people he was widely connected by blood and marriage. Willard Ballard was one of the superintendents, of a manufacturing company in Suffolk, and had lived in that town for several years, but for about a year preceding the commission of the offense here charged lived in the county and was one of Babb’s neighbors. They were not intimate. Both were married and had families.

On the night of May 4, 1930, both attended divine services *985at Cypress chapel. After services Babb drove off in a Ford sedan. By him sat…