Thompson v. Commonwealth

In this case the accused was convicted of murder in the first degree in the Circuit Court of Botetourt county, on an indictment charging him with the murder of one Wil(5 liam Peck Austin, and sentenced to be electrocuted on May the sixth of the same year. To this judgment a writ of error was awarded by one of the judges of this court. From the evidence in the case, giving credence to the testimony for the Commonwealth, the material and pertinent facts are as follows:

The homicide occurred in the early part of the night of December 18, 1920, in the public road, or street, before Bolton’s store,…