Howell v. Commonwealth

Stanley, Commissioner

Affirming.

On a Saturday afternoon in June, 1949, on a main street of Louisa, the appellant, George N. Howell, stopped Bert McCormick, Jr., and his Brother, Darner; asked Bert, “What did you hit me with there that night?”; cursed him and said, “I am going to kill both you sons-of-bitches right here;” drew a pistol and shot Bert with a pistol in the back three times as he was running away. That is the evidence for the Commonwealth. The two men had had a fight at a country church a few nights before and McCormick had struck Howell a severe blow with some instrument. The…