Gross v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Turner

Affirming.

The 15th. of February, 1912, was fixed as the time for the trial, at Buckhorn, in Perry County, before the police judge, of Willie and Andrew Johnson, charged with some misdemeanor growing out of reprehensible conduct the Sunday night before at the church in that town. An attempt was made at the time to arrest them, but they resisted and escaped. The four appellants, Ned and Jordon Gross, Steve Sandlin and Charley Riley, were the chief witnesses against the two boys upon the charge aforesaid. It appears that prior to this time there had been some…