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Timmons v. Commonwealth

Kentucky Supreme Court

Decided May 20, 1977PublishedCited by 45 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

PALMORE, Justice.

James Howard Timmons appeals from judgments entered pursuant to a verdict finding him guilty of first-degree unlawful imprisonment (KRS 509.020) and murder (KRS 507.020) and fixing his punishment at five years’ imprisonment and life imprisonment, respectively. The two charges were tried together.

The case arose out of the abduction and death of a three-year-old boy named Eddy Belt.

Timmons did not testify, and except for the abduction of the little boy the evidence against him was entirely circumstantial. Shortly after 6:00 P.M. on June 19, 1975, Timmons borrowed his brother’s…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  2. United States v. AgursSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
  3. Giles v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  4. Trowel v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1977
  5. Romans v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1977

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3Cited by45 opinions

  1. State v. AnthonyTennessee Supreme Court · 1991
  2. Wilson v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1992
  3. Mobley v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1982
  4. Halvorsen v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1987
  5. Duncan v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2010

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