REEVES v. COMMONWEALTH


462 S.W.2d 926 (1971)

Troy REEVES, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

January 22, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lowell W. Lundy, Barbourville, Terry E. Forcht, Paul Braden, Corbin, for appellant.

John B. Breckinridge, Atty. Gen., Douglas E. Johnson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Frankfort, for appellee.


DAVIS, Commissioner.

Troy Reeves was indicted for the willful murder of James Lee Johnson. Upon trial by jury, he was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and his punishment fixed at imprisonment for twenty-one years. He seeks reversal of that conviction and assigns various charges of error, all of which relate to his claim that the trial court improperly admitted in evidence an incriminating confession. A related assignment of error deals with the failure of the...

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