Commonwealth v. Compton

Opinion of the Court by

Morris, Commissioner

Certifying the law.

The appellee and about forty other persons were jointly indicted at the February, Í934, term of the Pike circuit court, being charged with the statutory offense of confederating and banding themselves together for the purpose of intimidating, alarming, or injuring others. At the .same term the appellee made a motion for a severance, which the court sustained, and the commonAvealth elected to try appellee. The trial proceeded, a jury returned a verdict .of guilty, and fixed the punishment at two. years’ confinement in the…