Cooksey v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Willis

Affirming.

A. B. Cooksey has appealed from a death sentence imposed upon him for the murder of John H. Ashby.

One Sunday afternoon.'in November, 1929, the appellant and his brother, Houston Cooksey, armed themselves with pistols and went to the house of Odelia Briley in the negro section of the city of Madisonville. A crowd of congenial spirits had foregathered there and the hilarity soon ¿degenerated into an altercation of ominous character. The two Cookseys left the house carrying their pistols in their hands, and paraded the public streets muttering threats…