CRAFT v. COMMONWEALTH


229 S.W.2d 465 (1950)

312 Ky. 700

CRAFT v. COMMONWEALTH.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

April 28, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Hubbs, Louisville, John T. Fowler, Louisville, for appellant.

A. E. Funk, Atty. Gen., Zeb A. Stewart, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


STANLEY, Commissioner.

The death penalty has been decreed for the appellant, Jake President Craft, for the crime of robbery committed with the use of a deadly weapon. KRS 433.140.

The case is unusual in that there is no contradiction in the evidence. The Commonwealth proved a customer entering a liquor store met two young Negros coming out. She found the clerk, Milton Zimmerman, in a back room seriously wounded. The police soon arrived and quickly arrested...

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