Mills v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Morris, Commissioner

Reversing.

On Sunday, October 9, 1941, Hamp Langdon was shot and killed in Clay County. Appellants, with Woodrow Jackson and Tom Mills, were charged with conspiring to murder, and murdering Langdon, and in separate counts with aiding and abetting. Tom Mills was convicted at a succeeding term; later the indictment as to Jackson was dismissed, and appellants were tried' and found guilty, the jury fixing punishment at two years in the penitentiary. On appeal it is insisted that the verdict was contrary to the evidence; that appellants were entitled to a…