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RISNER v. COMMONWEALTH

242 S.W.2d 623 (1951)

RISNER v. COMMONWEALTH.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

September 28, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wm. Melton, C. A. Noble, Hazard, for appellant.

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

MILLIKEN, Justice.

The appellant, Fritz Risner, was found guilty of the murder of Bill Campbell, which occurred in Perry County shortly before dawn on Sunday, May 7, 1950, and his punishment fixed at life imprisonment. The fact that appellant shot and killed Bill Campbell with a twenty-two rifle at the time and place stated in the indictment was admitted. Mrs. Hammonds was Risner's widowed sister, and he was staying with her in the building where she and Campbell...

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