Hannah v. Commonwealth

*865On June 9, 1928, in the town of Pennington Gap, Harris Hannah shot and killed Dana Gilbert. He was tried, found guilty' of second degree murder, and sentenced to twenty years confinement in the penitentiary.

Harris Hannah and Ethel Peters were married on July 3, 1922, at Mallory, W. Va. In the latter part of May, 1928, he and his wife came to Pennington Gap on a visit to her parents. On May 31st, Hannah, in company with his father-in-law and brother-in-law, returned to West Virginia on business, and came back to the Peters home on June 3rd. On the afternoon of the preceding day, Mrs. Peters…