Allen v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Clarke

Affirming.

On the night of'July 22, 1912, at about eleven o’clock, the tobacco barn of Gardner and Walker, located in the *477northeastern part of the city of Mayfield, Kentucky, was discovered to he on fire. Almost immediately after the city fire department had gone to this fire, a fire was discovered in the western part of the city about half a mile distant from the first fire, in what is known as the tobacco district, and this fire proved to be a tobacco- barn owned by G. R. Allen and W. A. Usher, in which purchases of tobacco were being handled by K W. Wright…