Commonwealth v. Hicks
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 80 — Prosecution against Ulysses Hicks as an Accessory before the Fact to the Suicide of Another. APPEAL FROM GRAVES CIRCUIT COURT — t-R. J. BÚGG, CIRCUIT JUDGE. From an Order Directing a Verdict in Favor of Defendant the Commonwealth Appeals. “An accessory before the fact is one who was absent when the act was committed, but who procured, counseled, commanded, or abetted ’the principal or actual doer of the act, to commit it.” Clark’s Crim.
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Case 80 — Prosecution against Ulysses Hicks as an Accessory before the Fact to the Suicide of Another. APPEAL FROM GRAVES CIRCUIT COURT — t-R. J. BÚGG, CIRCUIT JUDGE. From an Order Directing a Verdict in Favor of Defendant the Commonwealth Appeals. “An accessory before the fact is one who was absent when the act was committed, but who procured, counseled, commanded, or abetted ’the principal or actual doer of the act, to commit it.” Clark’s Crim. Law, sec. 48. We submit that where it appears from defendant’s statements that he purchased morphine for the deceased on a certain Monday and said…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion op the court by
JUDGE BARKER
Affirming.
Ulysses Hicks was indicted by the grand jury of Graves county, charged with being accessory before the fact to the self murder, or suicide, of one Chris Haggard. A trial resulted in the court’s sustaining a motion of the accused for a peremptory instruction to find him not guilty, made at the close of the Commonwealth’s testimony. To review this judgment this appeal is prosecuted under section 337 of the Criminal Code.
The evidence for the Commonwealth was substantially as follows: Tom Sears testified that he was standing at the corner of Hunt’s…
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