Poore v. State

J.W. Poore was convicted in the lower court on a charge of murdering one A.H. Hover and was sentenced to death. From this judgment he appeals.

A.H. Hover was an oil operator, and his business was to drill oil wells and buy and sell leases. He met Poore in a hotel at Middleboro, Kentucky, and Poore represented to him that he, or he and his family, had mineral lands in Mississippi that had not been leased and that the wanted Hover to come down and inspect them with a view to development. They, Hover and Poore, left Middleboro on July 6, 1947, traveling in a cream-colored 1947 Studebaker…