Bates v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Hurt

Affirming.

The appellant, Uriah Bates, a young m?m about twenty-four years of age, resided with his father’s family, near the point, where Indian creek, empties into Rockhouse creek. On Indian creek three or four miles from its mouth, Elijah Sergent resided with his wife, his daughter, Edith, a sixteen year old girl, and probably other children. Sergent was between fifty and sixty years of age. Beside the public highway, which ran along Indian preek, and a short distance from the mouth of the creek, lived Horse Neece and his wife, in a house, which was owned by…