Martin v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court ey

Judge Hurt

Affirming.

On the 9th day of December, 1916, the appellant, Tjiibe Martin, with a pistol, shot and mortally wounded •Outhrie Diuguid, in Curd street, in the town of Murray, ■ in Calloway county. The shooting took place at about •twelve o ’clock, on Saturday, and the wounded- man died on the following day, at about 4:30 p. m. At the time of his death, Diuguid was a deputy constable, and pre*542vious to that time, it seems, had been a deputy marshal of the town of Murray, and for several days, previous to the shooting, he had been employed, in superintending the…