Nash v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Hobson, Commissioner—

Reversing.

Jess Nash, Bill Collins and Chester Humflett were indicted in the Knox circuit court for the murder of Roy Disney. On the trial of Nash he was found guilty and his punishment fixed at death. He appeals.

Briefly stated, the facts are that Disney was shot from ambush while walking along the road. He died a few days later. Nash, when arrested, voluntarily confessed that he did the shooting, and on the trial the commonwealth showed that there was a maple stump, around which thick sprouts had grown up, a few yards from the road where Disney was…