Warner v. Commonwealth

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

STANLEY* COMMISSIONER

Affirming.

The appellant, Sylvester Warner, twenty-four years old, freely confessed to committing’ a deliberate, pret meditated, and ghastly murder, and upon his trial of* fered no defense. The judgment condemns him to death! When Sherman Richards went to see about his trapse his attention was attracted to a white cloth just under1 the surface of the river in Casey county near Liberty.* In endeavoring to pull it out with a pole he discovered that it was the body of a man wrapped in a sheet. When, assistance had come the body was lifted from the water…