Shelby v. Commonwealth

JUDGE PRYOR

delivered the opinion of the court.

On Saturday, in August, 1887, Mrs. Sallie Moore, who lived on her farm in the county of Ballard, was found murdered in her room. Her skull had been crushed with a club, and her throat cut from ear to ear, and a considerable sum of money taken from the premises-by those committing this horrid crime. The murderers, it seems, ransacked the entire house, turning up the bed clothing below and in the upper rooms. They took four hundred and eighty-dollars from one pocket-book, leaving in it two hundred dollars; also *565opened the bureau drawer, in which was…