Johnson v. Commonwealth

Opinion oe the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner — •

Affirming.

We have another tragedy from Troublesome creek. Lee Johnson appeals from a twenty-one year sentence for killing Tom Lucas, deputy sheriff of Knott county, on a Sunday in November, 1930.

Lucas and another deputy sheriff, Isom Slone, had arrested Lark Huff and Merlin Triplett for public drunkenness and had taken them to the home of the police judge of the village of Pippapass. While they were there, Lee Johnson, G-arlie Triplett, and three or four companions, whose ages ranged from sixteen to nineteen years, passed, and, according to the…