Niece v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Affirming.

The judgment is of conviction of the crime of receiving stolen property. KRS 433.290. The penalty imposed is five years’ imprisonment. The case is a sequel to Nease v. Commonwealth, 307 Ky. 640, 211 S. W. 2d 826, and McPeak v. Commonwealth, — Ky. —, — S. W. 2d —. They affirmed death sentences imposed upon two men for armed robbery. Those men and another took the automobile and other property of Vernon Hodges, in Jefferson County, compelled him to go with them to Perry County, where they brutally murdered him. However, those facts were…