Fowler v. Commonwealth

*81Opinion op the Court by

Judge Sampson

Affirming.

On the night of March 1, 1922, William Brumley, Sr., ninety-eight years of age, living* alone in Clinton county, was tied hands and feet, in bed, in his home and robbed of about fifty dollars in money. As soon as he could unloosen himself after the robbers’ escape, he sounded a large dinner bell as a signal to his sons, who lived nearby, and they came to his assistance. Four or five days later Mr. Brumley made an affidavit before a magistrate, and procured a warrant of arrest to be issued for Willie Fowler and OMa Fowler, brothers, charging them…