Mills v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Reversing.

John Mills, the appellant, bas been sentenced to death for the murder of Millard Broughton on June 16, 1947. The grounds for reversal of the judgment are: (1) there was no evidence upon which to base the qualification of the self-defense instruction, and (2) prejudicial statements to the jury by a prosecuting officer.

It is a sufficient statement of the evidence to say that Mills had lived with Broughton and his family, which consisted of a wife and six children, the oldest ‘ of whom was twelve years of age, for about four months until the…