Blanton v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Rees —

Affirming.

Ed Blanton and Hayes' Blanton, his son, under an indictment charging, them with the willful murder of Leonard McKenzie, were tried and convicted, and their punishment fixed at life imprisonment in the penitentiary. Ed Blanton died a few weeks after his trial, and Hayes Blanton prosecutes this appeal. His counsel candidly and frankly concedes that the record is unusually free of errors, but insists that the evidence is not sufficient to sustain the verdict, and this is the sole ground relied upon for a reversal of the judgment.

Ed Blanton lived in…