Coates v. Commonwealth

Opinión op tub Court by

Judge Bichardson

Affirming.

Beece Coates and Garland Coates, by the grand jury of Madison county, were jointly indicted charged with the crime of willful murder, committed by the shooting and killing of Albert Melton.

On the night Melton was killed, Garland Coates went to his home about 10 o ’clock and called for Melton, who was at the time on the back porch of his home. The door of his home was closed and latched; Coates broke it off the hinges, knocked Melton’s wife down, and demanded that she tell him where her husband was. At that time Melton was afflicted with asthma…