McGhee v. Commonwealth

Defendant, Karren Chaney McGhee, was convicted by a jury as an accessory before the fact in the murder of her husband, Larry Dean McGhee. Her punishment was fixed at twenty years in the penitentiary, and she was sentenced accordingly. We granted this appeal, limited to considering whether the evidence is sufficient to sustain her conviction.

On October 19, 1978, Milton Edward McGhee (Dick McGhee), Larry McGhee, and Jimmy Lee Moran were shot to death at a logging site near Waidsboro, in Franklin County. Terry Brogan (here*424after often referred to as Brogan) and his brother, Ricky Brogan, were…