Pruett v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge McCandless —

Reversing.

Cleve Pruett is accused of the murder of his father, Joseph Pniett. He, was tried in the Lawrence circuit court, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.

The deceased owned a small mountain farm; he was a widower, sixty-three years of age and lived alone in a double log house, it having two doors on each side, back and front.

The defendant, with his wife and five children, lived on the opposite side of the farm. On May 1st, 1922, the morning-of the homicide, deceased took breakfast with them, and it is claimed asked defendant’s -wife to…