Logan v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

William Rogers Clay, Commissioner

Reversing.

In the month of January, 1916, R. H. Reach was appointed marshal of the town of Dawson. In the month of *82July following he was shot and killed by Mack Logan, who, together with D. F. Tribble and Buck Ferguson, was indicted for murder. The indictment charged a conspiracy' on the part of the defendants to murder Keach, and that they did murder him pursuant to, and during the existence of, the conspiracy. The indictment further charged Logan as being the principal in the commission of the murder and Tribble and Ferguson as being…