RODGERS v. COMMONWEALTH


470 S.W.2d 605 (1971)

Wayne Thomas RODGERS, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

Rehearing Denied October 8, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark E. Gormley, Versailles, George C. Piper, Lexington, for appellant.

John B. Breckinridge, Atty. Gen., James B. Wooten, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Frankfort, for appellee.


DAVIS, Commissioner.

On September 23, 1967, shortly after noon, the appellant, Wayne Thomas Rodgers, walked into the office of the sheriff of Woodford County and told the sheriff that he had shot his (Rodgers') wife, and he thought she was dead. The sheriff went to the nearby residence of the Rodgerses and found the body of appellant's wife slumped in a rocking chair. She was dead as the result of a shotgun wound in her right temple. Her infant child was in her arms...

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