Cook v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Willis

Affirming.

Albert Cook and Miles Bates, Jr., together with five other persons, were indicted for the murder of Will Thornbury. The indictment charged a conspiracy among the defendants to commit the murder. Cook and Bates were granted a separate trial, and both were found guilty. Cook was sentenced to the penitentiary for life, and Bates for a term of twenty-one years. They have prosecuted an appeal from the judgment of conviction, assigning as error certain rulings of the trial court in instructing and admonishing the jury.

Will Thornbury and A. J. Thornbury…