Plummer v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 24 — INDICTMENT APPEAL FROM PENDLETON CIRCUIT COURT. CITED— Section 334, Criminal Code. 15 B. Monroe, 554. 17 B. Mon., 409. Amor. Grim. Law, 332-3.
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE HARDIN
delivered the opinion of the court:
The appellants, Alexander Plummer and James Barnes, were, together with Samuel Barnes, jointly indicted for the murder of Leonard Moss. On the motion of the appellants, who pleaded “ not guilty,” it was ordered that they be tried jointly, but separate and apart from said Samuel Barnes, and accordingly they were so tried.
The evidence, which was mainly circumstantial, tended strongly to show that the deceased came to his death by violence at the hands of the defendants, or some one or more of them, acting in pursuance of some design, in *77•which each…
2Cited by15 opinions
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- Watkins v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1928
- Leadingham v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1918
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