Pergram v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Reversing.

• On a Sunday in April, 1930, at the railroad station of Olympia, Bath county, Curtis Crouch was shot and killed. He had gone there armed with two pistols. While he was sitting on a ¡baggage truck, his cousin James Per-gram, aged 71 years and weighing only about 130 pounds, came along. The afternoon train had just come in and there Were a number of people at or near the station. Ill feeling had existed between the two men, and the first words spoken on this occasion were by Pergram, who asked the deceased, “What makes you ram your hands in…