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VANOVER v. COMMONWEALTH

237 S.W.2d 539 (1951)

VANOVER et al. v. COMMONWEALTH.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

March 9, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. E. Childers, Pikeville, for appellants.

A. E. Funk, Atty. Gen., Zeb A. Stewart, Asst. Atty. Gen., J. A. Runyon, W.A. Daugherty, Pikeville, for appellee.

STANLEY, Commissioner.

Roy Conway, the sheriff of Pike County, was lured from his home on a false call for duty and assassinated about eleven o'clock of the night of July 28, 1950. The appellants, Tommy Vanover and Hubert Vanover, half brothers, have been convicted of the crime and sentenced to life imprisonment. As is usual and proper where proof of the charge rests on circumstantial evidence, the testimony covered a broad range. We summarize it very briefly in considering...

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