Collett v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Revers ing.

The grand jury of Leslie county at its regular August, 1937, term returned an indictment against the appellant and defendant below, P. L. Collett, accusing him of murder, committed by shooting and killing with a shotgun Burchill Collett with malice aforethought, which occurred in front of the residence of Joe Asher, a rural citizen of Leslie county. His home was located on Jack’s creek at a point 100 yards aboke where the mountain stream in Short Hollow runs into it. Between that junction and the Asher residence there is almost a right angle turn…