Mullins v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Wise county.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
The accused, Morgan Mullins, was indicted for the murder of Ark. W. Howell, and, upon his trial, convicted of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years.
It appears that the deceased left home on the morning of the 6th of February, 1911, for the purpose of going after whiskey, and that on the 17th of that month his body, with the head cut or beaten off, was found on the side of the mountain, about one and a half miles from his home. The evidence relied on by the Commonwealth to show that the accused murdered the deceased is entirely circumstantial.
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2Cases cited6 opinions
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