Bullock v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Reversing.

In the late afternoon of November 17, 1930, Guy Doan was assassinated while' going home from work. The assassin fired a shotgun from within an abandoned log hut on the roadside. The appellant, James Bullock, has been convicted of the crime, and sentenced to life imprisonment.

The evidence against him is principally that a bloodhound, 24 hours or more after the killing, followed a trail from the cabin to his home some two miles away. It was also proven that the accused had made several threats against the deceased, although the cause of his…