Biggs v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Turner

— Reversing.

The appellants, Buck Biggs and Robert Biggs were jointly indicted, each charged with the murder of James Case by stabbing and cutting him, from which he died, and each was charged with aiding and abetting the other in such cutting and killing.

On their joint trial it developed that Case had for several years been a tenant of the two Biggs, who were brothers and owned some considerable tracts of land in Carter County. It appears that Case claimed that he. had rented from Buck Biggs a certain tract of land and that Buck Biggs had refused to carry…