Reynolds v. Commonwealth

Kelly, P.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

A. T. Reynolds, upon an indictment for the murder of his son, Alvis J. Reynolds, was found guilty of that *763crime, in the second degree, and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of eight years.

The evidence in the case upon some of the material points is conflicting, but, from the standpoint of the Commonwealth and as supporting the verdict, justifies the following statement:

The killing occurred on Sunday afternoon, December 19, 1920. The deceased, Alvis Reynolds, a man of about thirty years of age, lived at Danville, and had come to his father’s…