Estes v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

In the late afternoon of Sunday, May 6, 1928 (after it had become dark), the appellant and defendant below, ■David Estes, shot and killed A. J. Brookshire, who was at that time the sheriff of E still county, Ky. The killing occurred in the -front yard near to the porch of defendant’s-small residence located on an alley in the outskirts of Irvine, the county seat of the county. A regular term of- the Estill circuit court was then in session, or convened the next morning, and on the latter day defendant was indicted, charged with murder, and two'…