Taylor v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Settle

Reversing.

The appellant, J. H. Taylor, was tried in the Whitley circuit court under an indictment charging him with the murder of Frank Sumner. The jury by their verdict found him guilty of the crime- charged and fixed his punishment at confinement in the penitentiary for life. This appeal is prosecuted by him from the judgment entered upon that verdict.

The killing occurred at night on August 6, .1915, at a colored school house near the city of Somerset in the county of Pulaski, and but a day or two before the primary election at which candidates, for…