Neace v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Logan

Eeversing.

The appellants were jointly indicted with Dave Miller, Manuel Miller, and Andrew G-odsey at the June term of the Perry circuit court, 1929, charged with the crime of willful murder! They were convicted at a trial held in September, and their punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for life.

It is unnecessary to narrate the details of the revolting crime. They were charged with the murder of one Boycan Jones, a deputy sheriff of the county, and proof tended to establish that the murder was accomplished ■with savagery unexampled in modern…