Sloan v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Reversing.

This case presents a mysterious murder from the mountains of Jackson county. While a young man was looking for kindling wood in January, 1934, he discovered the bones of a man scattered on a rock ledge about 8 feet above the surrounding ground and several hundred feet from any pathway or road. Rotting overalls, a hat, bill of a cap, and shoes were likewise here and there, on and near this ledge; the overalls being found in the top part of a tree which had been cut down some 40 or 50 feet away from the scattered skeleton. A pocketbook with…