Keaton v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Commissioner Sandidge

Reversing.

Appellant, William Keaton, has been convicted of murdering Cecil Hunnecutt and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. He prosecutes this appeal from that judgment.

The first question presented by the appeal is whether the evidence was sufficient to take the case to the jury. Cecil Hunnecutt was killed late in the afternoon of November 16, 1926. He was assassinated. His murderer hid among the bushes and undergrowth on a hillside near his home and killed him while he was chopping wood in his woodyard. Pour or five shots were fired, only one…