Jack v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Sandidge—

Reversing.

Appellant, Joe Jack, Jr., has been convicted of murder and sentenced to confinement in the state penitentiary for life by judgment of the Pike circuit court, and appeals.

It is urged that the indictment is fatally defective, and that appellant’s demurrer to it should have been sustained. The indictment appears to be unnecessarily long and somewhat involved. Our consideration of it, however, has led to the conclusion that the demurrer was properly overruled. It charged appellant and W. H. Turner, Joe Jack, Sr., Ilattie May Parley, and…