Witt v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Yan Sant, Commissioner

Reversing.

Appellants, Lee Witt, Willie Mason, Charlie Mason, and Henry Earl Haste, have appealed from a judgment of conviction of manslaughter under an indictment charging them with the murder of Chester Portman. Each received a sentence of seven years’ confinement in the State Reformatory. We will review the evidence as briefly as possible.

Willie Mason and Lee Witt, in the latter’s green 1938 two-door Chevrolet sedan, left Liberty for Lebanon at about 10:00 o’clock A. M., July 29, 1946, to procure beer and whisky. About a mile from Liberty,…