Rose v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Fulton

— Affirming.

Neville Rose appeals from a judgment sentencing him to confinement in the penitentiary for life for the murder of Leslie Childers. The first ground urged for reversal, that the verdict was flagrantly against the evidence, necessitates a statement of the substance of the evidence.

On the morning of the killing, which took place about 1:30 P. M. on Sunday, November 20, 1941, the appellant, who lived on the farm of his father, Grover Rose, but in a separate house, secured a .22 rifle at the home of his father and went rabbit hunting. During the…