Ross v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Robinson

Affirming.

On July 16, 1923, Walker Ross, the appellant, was indicted in the Carter circuit court, charged with the wilful murder of one Cecil Conn, a young man living near Olive Hill. It appears that appellant was 34 years of age, with a wife and three children, and had resided in that vicinity since his birth. In 1919 he left a farm where he had been working and opened a store in the village of Limestone, and while thus engaged Cecil Conn, who had lately returned from the army, opened an account in his store, and being somewhat slow in his payments was…