Powell v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Van Sant, Commissioner

Reversing.

Green Bowling, Squire Lovins, Jr., and appellant, John Powell, Jr., were indicted jointly for the murder of, and conspiracy to murder, Matilda Doyle Griffin, whose death occurred on the night of April 17, 1947. The indictment alleged that death was caused by the administration of strychnine. The details of her actions immediately before her death were not related by her husband who was the only person present at- the time-she died. The husband stated that earlier in the evening' Bowling, in the company of two other men, called and…