Carson v. Commonwealth

This writ of error brings under review the proceedings in a trial which resulted in a judgment on a verdict sentencing the accused to 20 years in the penitentiary for murder in the second degree.

The testimony for the Commonwealth may be summarized as follows:

Between 6:30 and 7:00 A. M. on Sunday, August 10, 1947, Esther McCall, a Negro woman, was found dead in the front room of a two-room cottage, occupied by Tom Hazzard, on Myrtle street, in Bristol. The doctor who performed the autopsy said that he found three injuries to the brain, one on the top of the head, another on the back of the…