Wolford v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner—

Affirming.

Jamboree, in Pike County, is the scene of this homicide. A horse trade was the origin of it and whiskey the precipitating cause. On Sunday afternoon, March 5, 1944, Isaiah Wolford, his brother-in-law, Perry McCoy, and his brother, Caudle McCoy, gathered at a “jockey ground” on a creek. When Isaiah, nicknamed Bud, first rode up, he said: ‘ ‘ Caudle, if you would shave a few of them whiskers off, me and you might try to trade some now.” He asked, “Don’t you believe I would?” Caudle replied: “I don’t know, you might do it.” This was…