DeBoe v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Hobson

Reversing.

R. H. DeBoe was indicted in the McCracken Circuit Court for the offense of being accessory before the fact to the felonious burning of a storehouse in Paducah. He demurred to the indictment, his demurrer was overruled. The case was heard before a jury who found him guilty as charged. The court sentenced him to confinement in the penitentiary, from two to six years; and he appeals.

In the indictment the defendant is accused of “the *697offense of being an accessary before the fact to the offense of feloniously, willfully and maliciously…