Bennett v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Winn —

Affirming.

About dusk on the night of August 26, 1911, the appellant, Joe Bennett, some twenty-five years of age, was engaged in a difficulty with1 William Lawson, age 59, at the door of the Poplar Creek Church, in Whitley County. When that difficulty was over it was found that Lawson had been shot. He died within a few minutes. There were present at the time among the little rural crowd gathered to attend divine service, Maynard Bennett, a brother of Joe Bennett, and Crit Lawson, a son of the deceased. Both of them engaged in the shooting before it was over.…