Alsbrook v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Willis

Reversing.

Mervin Alsbrook, with eighteen associates, was indicted for the crime of confederating and banding together for the purpose of intimidating, alarming, and disturbing Willie Love and Roy Love. Alsbrook was given a separate trial, convicted, and condemned to serve a sentence of eighteen months in the penitentiary. He has prosecuted an appeal, complaining that he was denied a peremptory instruction of not guilty, that incompetent. evidence was adduced against him, and that the instructions to the jury were incorrect and incomplete.

1. The statute upon…