Fletcher v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Reversing.

In the early morning’ of Monday, July 21, 1929, neighbors found the dead bodies of James Corum, aged about 78 years, and Ms wife, Malissa Corum, in their cottage home in the village of Artemus, Knox county. Their mouths were stuffed with rags extending down their throats. James Corum had been shot and choked. It appears also that the victims had been struck with an iron bar found in the room. Their trunk had been torn open and the room ransacked. Disorder indicated that a desperate struggle had taken place. The evidence is pretty…