COLBERT v. COMMONWEALTH


306 S.W.2d 825 (1957)

Herman COLBERT, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

November 1, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert W. Zollinger, Irving I. Friedman, Louisville, for appellant.

Jo M. Ferguson, Atty. Gen., David Sebree, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Marvin H. Morse and Louis Lusky, Louisville, for Kentucky Civil Liberties Union, amicus curiae.


CULLEN, Commissioner.

Herman Colbert appeals from a judgment of conviction of armed robbery, imposing a sentence of life imprisonment.

The only witnesses upon the trial were the victim, the arresting officer, and an employe of the state reformatory who had given a lie detector test to the defendant. The only real issue upon the trial was whether the defendant was the person who committed the robbery.

The major contentions of the appellant are that...

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