Cass v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Commissioner Stanley—

Reversing.

For the murder of his paramour, Mary Willie Davis, the appellant, Ben Cass, colored, has been condemned to death. They had lived together for over a year in an alley in Louisville.

The evidence introduced by the commonwealth was in substance that on Sunday a week before the death of the Davis woman, the parties had quarreled over the loss of some money by her and she had left him. On Tuesday he sent her a message to return and clean up the room and help him sell some whisky. She came back' on Friday evening, and that night he began beating…