Williams v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Rees

Affirming.

The appellant, Tom Williams, has been convicted of' the crime of manslaughter, and from a judgment sentencing him to imprisonment for twenty-one years he appeals. The chief ground urged for a reversal of the, judgment is that the evidence was not sufficient to sustain the verdict.

Williams was a member of a local political club, or secret society, known as the Good Fellowship Order. Shortly after dark on September 30, 1933, accompanied by two members of the order, Chester Chadwell and James Rosenbaum, appellant went to a point near the city…