Hall v. Commonwealth

About seven o’clock in the evening of December 22, 1940, on a Pittsylvania county highway, Handy Hall, colored, in circumstances presently to .he stated, shot and killed Ennis E. Davis, also a member of his race. He was indicted for murder, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter, and has been sentenced to five years’ confinement in the penitentiary.. After Davis was shot, Hall drove to a nearby merchant and told him what had happened.. He was advised to *24give himself up and, acting upon this advice, set out for the home of W. H. Bailey, a special policeman of Pittsylvania county. He met Mr.…