Frasure v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Settle

Affirming.

Following his indictment in the Carter circuit court for the crime of murder, the victim being his niece, the appellant, Robert Frasure, was three times convicted; his punishment on each trial being fixed by verdict of the jury and judgment of the court at imprisonment in the penitentiary for life. On appeal to this court from the first and second convictions, the judgment was in each instance reversed, the opinion on the first appeal being reported in 169 Ky. 620, and on the second in 176 Ky. 244. He now appeals from the third and last…