Bishop v. Commonwealth

Opinion or the court by

JUDGE DuRELLE

Reversing.

Appellant, Bishop, with one Thomas Lyons, was indicted for the murder of William McQuery on the Sth day of June, 1900. Appellant, it seems, had gone from Cincinnati to a place called the “Hobo Camp,” near the “Lagoon,” at Ludlow, on the 5th day of June, and he claims to have gotten into a difficulty with some tramps who were camping there, and to have been driven away. On the1 afternoon of the 8th he returned to Ludlow from Cincinnati with Lyons, as he says, for the purpose of taking a train for Louisville. On that day it appears that an unknown…