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QUARLES v. COMMONWEALTH

245 S.W.2d 947 (1951)

QUARLES v. COMMONWEALTH.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

Rehearing Denied February 29, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wm. F. Edmunds, Hopkinsville, for appellant.

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

STANLEY, Commissioner.

The judgment imposes the penalty of death on Jessie Lee Quarles for the murder of Everett Grady. Appellant submits as reversible errors the admission of incompetent evidence and improper argument of the Commonwealth's Attorney.

The appellant, a young Negro, had returned to Hopkinsville from service in the army about three days before the murder. About midnight of June 21, 1950, he approached the driver of a taxicab parked

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