Johnston v. Commonwealth

OpiNioN op the Court by

Judge Clarke.

Reversing.

On the 19th day of January, 1916, Lonnie Johnston shot and killed Chester Stowe in Pulton county, and at the January term of the Pulton circuit court an indictment was returned hy the grand jury accusing Lonnie Johnston and his uncle, W. T. Johnston, the appellant, of murdering Chester Stowe; that Lonnie Johnston shot him in the hack of the head with a shotgun, and that W. T. Johnston was present aiding and abetting in the killing.

At the next term of court appellant was tried upon this charge, convicted and his punishment fixed at confinement in…