GIBSON v. COMMONWEALTH


290 S.W.2d 603 (1956)

Corbitt GIBSON, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

Rehearing Denied June 15, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elmer Drake, Lexington, for appellant.

J. D. Buckman, Jr., Atty. Gen., Zeb A. Stewart, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


HOGG, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the common law offense of attempting to commit murder by placing a packaged time bomb, a deadly weapon, in a mail box where Phyllis Jean Gibson received her mail. His punishment was fixed at a fine of $2,500 and imprisonment in the county jail for one year. On his appeal he urges a reversal because (1) he was entitled to a directed verdict of not guilty and (2) prejudicially incompetent evidence was permitted to go to the jury...

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