Bowman v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

At a late hour of an evening in March or April, 1934, Comer Franklin, a youth seventeen years of age, was murdered in Mercer county, Ky. The place was on a. side road a short distance from the state highway and not far from Herrington Lake formed by the damming of Dix river. The guilty party or parties tied a rock to his body with a wire and threw it into the lake. At the following May, 1934, regular term of the Mercer circuit court appellant, Neal Bowman, was indicted charged with the murder of Franklin, and upon his trial at a later day he was…