Commonwealth v. Mayhew

Opinion op the Court by

Van Sant, Commissioner

Certifying the law.

The appeal is by the Commonwealth for the purpose of obtaining this Court’s certification of the law in respect to the admissibility in evidence of a confession made by the defendant concerning his fatal shooting of Chester Finnell. On November 14, 1942, Finnell, a bus driver for the Southeastern Greyhound Lines, drove his bus into the Lexington bus station a few minutes after 9:00 o ’clock P. M. While Finnell was assisting porters to unload baggage from the bus, the defendant, Henry Mayhew, stationed himself about six feet in…