Henry v. Commonwealth

Joe Henry was at the May, 1952, term of the Circuit Court of Washington County, indicted for the murder of Ralph Shaw. He was tried on June 14, 1952, and the jury found him guilty of murder in the second degree, and fixed his punishment at fourteen years in the penitentiary. Motion was duly made to set aside the verdict as contrary to the law and the evidence, which motion the trial court took under consideration. Thereafter, the defendant further moved to set aside the verdict and grant him a new trial on the ground of after-discovered evidence. On July 29, 1952, the court overruled both…