Peoples v. Commonwealth

The accused, Alonzo Peoples, has been convicted by a jury of murder -in the first degree, and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for a period of twenty years.

The record, while unsatisfactory, displays the following facts:

Lena White, a negro woman, on the 13th day of September, 1925, about six o’clock a. m., came to her *696death as a result of a wound inflicted by a bullet from a 32-20 calibre pistol; the bullet entered under the right arm near the back, at a poipt on the right side of her body, in the lower border, of the liver, and came out on the left side of the body at a point…