Bausell v. Commonwealth

Bernace Bausell, son of Henry F. Bausell, has been convicted of murder in the first degree and sent to prison for a term of thirty-two years.

On July 5, 1928, he married Virginia Cornett, the daughter of T. Eugene Cornett and his wife, Laura Clarke Cornett. At that time the Cornetts lived in Wythe county, *673and the Bausells in Bristol. Upon his marriage Bernace took his wife to his father’s home and continued to live there until the summer of 1932, when they went to Lebanon, the old home of the Bausells. They again lived in the same house, the father in one apartment and the son in another.

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