Mayhew v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Dawson

Affirming.

Willie Mayhew was convicted of the willful murder of Fred Richardson, and his punishment fixed at life imprisonment.

The shooting occurred about 9 p. m. on Saturday, June 9, 1945, near Leatherwood Creek in Perry County, and Richardson died in the Hazard Hospital about 9:3(> the following day.

In the afternoon of the day of the shooting the deceased, Richardson, came to the home of Delmer Cor-nett, a young man of about seventeen years of age, and asked Cornett to accompany him to the mouth of Leatherwood Creek to get an inner tube for Richardson’s…