Meadows v. Commonwealth

PALMORE, Justice.

Ronnie Meadows appeals from a judgment sentencing him to death pursuant to a verdict finding him guilty of intentional murder committed in the course of lst-de-gree burglary,' KRS 507.020(2)(b). In view of Boyd v. Commonwealth, Ky., 507 S.W.2d 550 (decided today), the judgment must be reversed insofar as it imposes the death penalty. Otherwise, however, we find no prejudicial error.

On May 23,1975, Meadows was placed on parole from a four-year sentence being served at the Kentucky State Penitentiary for breaking and entering. He was given a bus-ticket to Cincinnati, Ohio,…