Combs v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Hannah

Affirming.

Wesley Combs shot and killed James Salisbury, a merchant residing at the mouth of Beaver Creek, in Floyd County, Kentucky, in the latter’s store-house, on July 17, 1913.

He was tried and convicted of the crime of wilful murder at the February term, 1914, of the Floyd Circuit Court, and his punishment fixed at confinement during life in the penitentiary; and from the judgment of conviction he appeals.

It appears from the evidence that there had been some previous trouble between Combs and the deceased, and that on the day of the killing, Combs,…