Nails v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Logan

Affirming.

The appellants were charged by indictment in tbe Muhlenberg circuit court with the crime of banding and confederating for the purpose of alarming, disturbing, and injuring Jess Cook, his wife and infant children, and that they did disturb, alarm, intimidate, and injure Cook, his family and their property. A jury convicted them and fixed their punishment at three years each in the penitentiary.

■ The evidence is not as conclusive of guilt as to be entirely satisfactory, but charges such as this are usually provable only by circumstances. Ordinarily no…