Williams v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Perry

Affirming.

'The appellant, Charlie Williams (alias “Slim”), was jointly indicted with Bailey Warfield by the grand jury of the Christian circuit court at its February term, 1934, for the willful murder of G-. E. Lane “by shooting and wounding him with a pistol, loaded with leaden bullets, from which shooting and wounding the said Lane did then and there presently die.”

Williams was upon his separate trial found guilty as charged and sentenced to death.

It may be conceded that appellant’s conviction upon the murder charge rested largely upon the testimony of the…