Hughes v. Commonwealth

STEWART, Justice.

Appellant, Billie Hughes, and his son, Willard Hughes, were jointly indicted for wilful murder and for murder pursuant to a conspiracy. Upon a separate trial, appellant was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to twenty years and one day in the penitentiary. This appeal is taken from the judgment entered upon the jury’s verdict.

On the morning of January 22, 1949, appellant and his brother, Jake Hughes, were returning from a union meeting to their homes on Salt Lick Creek in Floyd County. They stopped on their arrival at Jake’s residence where Millie Gibson, who…