Coleman v. Commonwealth

John Coleman, Jr., twenty-three years of age, was indicted for the murder of one Clyde Duty, tried by a jury, found guilty of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary.

*199On a Saturday evening in July, 1944, between six and seven o’clock, John Coleman, Jr., the accused, and his friend, Willard Kelly, were in the town of Grundy, near the north end of Slate- Creek bridge. There were many miners in town that evening. Coleman and Kelly walked toward the north end of the bridge and as they approached the bridge they saw two acquaintances, Junior Dales and Tolby…