McHargue v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Commissioner Stanley—

Reversing.

The appellant, Charles McHargue, his brother, James McHargue, and Dolphia Mullins, were neighbors and fellow employees at a limekiln at Pine Hill, in Rock-castle county. Charles McHargue has been convicted of the murder of Mullins and sentenced to life imprisonment. Several grounds for a reversal are submitted to the court, one of which is that the evidence against bim, if taken as true, proved him guilty of manslaughter at the most, and not of murder, and, therefore, the verdict is not sustained by the evidence. This ground is well taken,…