Hall v. Commonwealth

JUDGE PRYOR

delivered the opinion of the court.

At the March term of the Pike Circuit Court for the year 1893, Henry Hall, the appellant, was indicted for the murder of his brother, Randolph Hall, and *323the jury who tried the case fixed the punishment at death.

We have- seldom read a record oí conviction where there were less palliating circumstances in behalf of the accused than this case presents. He filed an affidavit for a continuance on the ground that his brother had threatened to take his life, and had,- on more than one occasion, assaulted him — facts- that could be established by the…