Legal Opinion
Slaughter v. Commonwealth
Kentucky Supreme Court
Decided November 5, 1987No. 84-SC-272-MRPublishedCited by 145 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEPHENS, Chief Justice.
James Earl Slaughter was convicted in the Jefferson Circuit Court of first-degree robbery and murder. He received a sentence of 20 years for robbery and was sentenced to death for the murder. This matter of right appeal results. We affirm.
The charges underlying the convictions arose from the death of a store owner, Esther H. Stewart, in Jefferson County on January 28, 1983. Following an investigation, Slaughter was arrested on the day after the crime. He voluntarily gave a statement to the police in which he claimed to have been acting as a “lookout” when another man,…
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