Oliver v. Commonwealth

Roy Oliver, who was twenty-one years old, shot and killed Albin Haney, a boy of fifteen years, at Ruekersville, in Greene county, on Saturday, September 3, 1927, at six o’clock p. m. For the Commonwealth it is said that this was a deliberate murder, and for the accused it is said that it was an accident pure and simple. This issue was submitted to a jury, which found him guilty of murder in the second degree and ascertained and fixed his punishment at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of eighteen years. The verdict was confirmed by the trial court, and to it a writ or error has been…