Ball v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Drury, Commissioner

Affirming.

The appellant, Ball, was convicted of murder and his punishment fixed at life imprisonment. This homicide was a cruel, cowardly, pitiless, and pusillanimous assassination, for which Tom Gilreath, Jim Ball, Ed Smith, Willie Gilreath, George Hogue, and Luther Richmond were indicted. Tom Gilreath is the father of Willie Gilreath and is the father-in-law of Ed Smith. Jim Ball’s wife is a cousin of Tom Gilreath, and Willie Gilreath married a sister of Jim Ball. The relationship of George Hogue and Luther Richmond to the other defendants did not…