Conley v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Drury, Commissioner—

Reversing.

Roy Conley (alias Chub Dixon) appeals from a life sentence imposed upon him for the murder of Palmer Ratliff.

This occurred on Monday, April 29, 1935, and was a cowardly, brutal assassination.

About April 1, 1935, the United Mineworkers of America began an effort to organize the employees of the Barrowman Mines in Pike county, and soon induced some thirty odd of its workmen to join that union and to strike.

Other employees continued to work, and the strikers began picketing the mines in an effort to induce the others to join them and to…