JONES, Justice.
The litigation that prompts this appeal arises from a sordid drama of events that led to the brutal murder of Gladys Deskins at her home on Johns Creek in Pike County, Kentucky, on the night of July 11, 1971.
Robert Sykes appeals from a judgment sentencing him to life imprisonment pursuant to a jury verdict finding him guilty of conspiring with Boone Deskins, Willard Christian and William Eugene Thompson to murder Gladys Deskins.
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