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BELLEW v. COMMONWEALTH

477 S.W.2d 779 (1972)

Jessie James BELLEW, Sr., Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

March 3, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wade F. Richardson, Brandenburg, for appellant.

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

MILLIKEN, Judge.

Sergeant Jessie James Bellew was indicted for the fatal shooting of his wife Dianne with a pistol in their trailer home near Ft. Knox on February 18, 1968, just a few days before he was scheduled to depart for service in Germany, intending to leave his twenty-one-year-old wife of three months and her three-year-old daughter in this country. Bellew claimed the killing was accidental and on two previous trials the juries were not able to reach a verdict...

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