Coleman v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Morris, Commissioner

Reversing.

Appellants, together with Ann Taylor, Alex Adkins and R. W. Rowe, were charged in a true bill with murder, committed on September 7, 1938, it being charged that one of the parties named “did kill and slay Kathleen Francis by an assault upon her with hands, fists, feet and in other ways and manner,” and that others of' the accused were present abetting in the acts which caused the death of the girl.

When the case was called the appellants and Adkins moved for severance, and the motion was sustained, whereupon the commonwealth’s counsel…