Jack v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge McCandless

Beversing.

On a trial in the Warren circuit court, Bill Jack, alias Clarence McCoy, alias William Jones, was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. The defendant neither testified nor introduced any other evidence, and on this appeal his chief reliance for reversal is error of the court in the introduction of evidence by the commonwealth.

Charley Douglas and his brother Bill Douglas ran a day and night Greek restaurant in the city of Bowling Green. Their custom was for Bill to go on duty at 5 o ’clock in the morning and remain in charge until 8 in the…