HOSKINS v. COMMONWEALTH


374 S.W.2d 839 (1964)

Sterling HOSKINS and Oakley Mullins, Appellants, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

January 24, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shumate, Shumate & Flaherty, Irvine, for appellants.

John B. Breckinridge, Atty. Gen., George F. Rabe, Asst. Atty. Gen., Frankfort, for appellee.


CULLEN, Commissioner.

Sterling Hoskins and Oakley Mullins appeal from a judgment sentencing each to life imprisonment upon their conviction of being accessories before the fact to a murder committed by one J. C. Willis.

We shall first discuss the contention that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the verdict.

The victim, Carl Winkler, was an elderly, bachelor farmer who lived alone on a farm on a country side road. Around 7:50 p. m. on February...

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