CAVINS v. COMMONWEALTH


272 S.W.2d 656 (1954)

Paul Randall CAVINS, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

November 5, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Ervin Sanders, P. H. Hyden, Pikeville, for appellant.

J. D. Buckman, Jr., Atty. Gen., Wm. F. Simpson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


SIMS, Justice.

Appellant, Paul Randall Cavins, a boy 20 years of age, was convicted of robbing his uncle, Lech Cavins, of $290 and his punishment was fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for three years. He assigns three grounds for reversal of the judgment: 1. the verdict is not sustained by sufficient evidence; 2. the verdict is the result of passion and prejudice brought about by incompetent evidence; 3. improper argument by the attorney representing the Commonwealth...

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