Stroud v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Hannah

Reversing.

The appellant, Alonzo Stroud, and three other negroes, Emmet Russell, Dan Hoyle and Charlie Jackson, together with four white men, Hubert Bryant, Fred Stanaford, Fred Thompson and Charles Chambers, on the night of the 25th and morning of the 26th of April, *5041914, were engaged in gambling in Jackson’s house at the Bon Jellico mines near Williamsburg, in Whitley County; and in án altercation which arose during the progress of the game, Stroud shot and killed both Bryant and Stanaford. He was arrested, and taken to London and there confined in the…