Hays v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Creal, Commissioner

Reversing.

George Hays had. been sentenced to imprisonment for one year for the crime of arson and is appealing. He is charged with burning the public school building in subdistrict No. 7 in Knott county. This building stood on a hill something over 200 yards from a state highway. As we gather from the evidence there was an elevated ridge or bench back of the school building and a short distance therefrom. The building burned on the night of July 18, 1936, between the hours of 11 and 12 o’clock. The school superintendent and a number of other persons…