Collett v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner—

Affirming.

Cooney Asher Collett appeals from a judgment sentencing him to life imprisonment for the murder of Willard Roberts.

Appellant’s brother, Mack Asher Collett, was a deputy sheriff of Clay county. They, with Marion Combs, went to a box or pie, supper at a schoolhouse on Gilbert’s creek one night in the latter part of November, 1936. When the party had closed, Stanley Bowling, who was drunk, flourished a pistol and otherwise committed a breach of the peace. Mack Collett summoned the appellant and some other men to assist him in making the…