LUCAS v. COMMONWEALTH


225 S.W.2d 103 (1949)

311 Ky. 644

LUCAS v. COMMONWEALTH.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

December 6, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cubbage & Cubbage, Leitchfield, Robert O. Trent, Hardinsburg, for appellant.

A. E. Funk, Attorney General, Squire N. Williams, Jr., Ass't. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


HELM, Justice.

Appellant, Murtha Lucas, charged with murder, was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and his punishment fixed at 15 years in prison. He appeals.

On January 17, 1948, about 7:30 p. m., appellant shot and killed Jesse Johnson in the store of Raymond Kessee at Dyer, a village with three stores, in Breckinridge County. Appellant maintains the judgment of the lower court should be reversed because (1) Taking the evidence as a whole, reasonably...

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