Jones v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Richardson

Affirming.

Bud Jones and two others were indicted in the Laurel circuit court for the crime of willful murder, charged to have been committed by shooting and killing Ed Lewis. On a separate trial Jones was convicted and his .punishment fixed af confinement in the penitentiary for the period of his natural life. In the preliminary statement of the case to the jury, the attorney for the commonwealth stated:

“If these three (defendants) testify as witnesses in this case we will show by every good citizen in North Corbin and in Corbin that they are a bunch of…