Commonwealth v. Hargis
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 45 — JAMES HARGIS WAS TRIED FOR MURDER. . RESULTING IN A HUNG JURY, AND THE COMMONWEALTH APPEALS. QUESTIONS OF LAW DECIDED Appeal from Fayette Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion op the Court by
John D. Carroll, Commissioner.
The appellee, James Hargis, was put upon liis separate trial under an indictment charging that: “ Jam.es Hargis, Elbert Hargis, Ed Callahan, Alexander Hargis, and Jesse Spicer committed the crime of murder, as follows, viz.: That said James Hargis, Elbert Hargis, Ed Callahan, Alexander Hargis, and Jesse Spicer, in connection with Curtis Jett -and William Britton, on the 24th day of January, 1905, in the County of Breathitt and State of Kentucky, did unlawfully, willfully, feloniously, and with malice aforethought, shoot and wound James…
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- Powers v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1901
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- Mulligan v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1886
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