Bowling v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Chiep Justice Hobson-—

Affirming.

Ewen Bowling was indicted in the Breathitt Circuit Court for the wilful murder of Sam Crawford. On a trial of the case before a jury he was found guilty as charged and his punishment fixed at death. He appeals.

Ewen Bowling is a white man about thirty years old. Sam Crawford was a negro and had a son, Ora Crawford, about twenty years old. Ora Crawford, Ewen Bowling and George Bowling, a brother of Ewen, were all more or less under the influence of liquor at a bridge néar Jackson; and some quarrel'came up between Ora Crawford and Jack…