Hurd v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Affirming.

Upon tlie joint trial, tlie appellants, Luther Hurd and his wife, Daisy, were found guilty of killing Pedro Marpinez. The former was sentenced to serve twenty-one and the latter five years in prison.

During the day before, Marpinez and Homer Nantz, a brother of Daisy Hurd, were at the Hurd home, where all the parties engaged in drinking liquor furnished in part by Marpinez. They left about 10 o’clock that night, but some time toward the morning the two men returned, and, according to Hurd and his wife, they assaulted him without…