Huffman v. Commonwealth

W. H. Riddle was shot and mortally wounded sometime between one and two o’clock Sunday morning, April 26, 1936, in Augusta County and carried to a hospital in Staunton where he died from the wound on Tuesday, April 28, 1936. Sylvian E. Huffman, the accused, was arrested upon suspicion on the same day of the shooting. He was indicted for the murder, tried, convicted of murder in the first degree and his punishment fixed at death.

*672The evidence in the case was largely circumstantial. The most important question was whether or not the accused had been identified.

The indictment was in the form…