Wynn v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 57. — T,WO INDICTMENTS AGAINST -TAMES WYNN FOR ROBBERY TRIED TOGETHER. Appeal from Hopkins Circuit Court. J. F. Gordon, Circuit Judge. Defendant convicted and appeals. JAS. BREATHITT, Attorney General, and TOM B. McGREGOR, Assistant Attorney General, for Commonwealth.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion op the Court by
Judge Settle
Reversing.
This is an appeal from two judgments of the Hopkins circuit court, each convicting the appellant, James Wynn, of the crime of robbery. By agreement he was tried under the two indictments at the same time, and by the single verdict of the jury his punishment under one of the indictments was fixed at three and under the other at two years’ confinement in the penitentiary.
According to the commonwealth’s evidence, the alleged robberies were committed by appellant in the village of Nortonville, at night, in August, 1907, under the following…
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