Wayne v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court’by

Judge Turner

Reversing.

Appellant was indicted in the Henry Circuit Court charged with the murder of Pryor Martin.

On his trial he was adjudged guilty, and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for life, and from that judgment he appeals.

*699The trial disclosed that they were both negro men, and worked for Mr. James Foree, in Henry County; that they kept bachelor’s hall, and lived together in a small house belonging to him and had for several months before the killing; that they had always appeared to be on good terms, in fact as stated by Mr. Foree that they acted like…