Bennett v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Stanley

Reversing.

Some time during the night of July 2, 1926, Mrs. Rosa Bennett, the appellant’s grandmother, as well as adopted mother, who had reared him from infancy, was murdered with a club for the apparent purpose of robbery. The appellant has been twice convicted of that crime, and twice sentenced to die in expiation. His first conviction was set aside by this court because of the admission, without qualification, of his alleged confession. Bennett v. Commonwealth, 226 Ky. 529, 11 S. W. (2d) 437.

The deceased and the accused lived together on Sixth…