Williams v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

—Affirming.

We are presented with an appeal from a conviction of murder, with the death penalty imposed. There was no defense offered in the trial and the attorneys representing the accused, under appointment of the court, do little more than submit the case that we may examine the record for error. We have done so and find it exceptionally free.

When her son and his wife returned home about half past ten o’clock one Sunday evening in September last, his - mother, Mrs. Ada Hughes, was not in. She had not been seen by the neighbors. Her purse was found…