Clinton v. Commonwealth

Holt, J.,1

delivered the opinion of the court.

In this case the accused stands convicted of first degree murder.

This certificate of fact appears in the record:

“On the morning of the tenth of May, 1932, Vernon Wilson Jones, the deceased, an officer of the town of Franklin, Virginia, found five bags of peanuts about twenty feet from the county road near Franklin cemetery. While Officer Jones was there with the peanuts James Clinton came up and said that the peanuts were left there by his brother, who lived on the farm of Job Harrell, who lived on the Cypress Bridge road, when his (meaning his…