Stucker v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Perry

Affirming.

This appeal is prosecuted from judgments of the Franklin circuit court and the Mercer circuit court, wherein the trial courts sustained in each instance special demurrers to appellants’ respective petitions filed, therein, requesting an inquest relative to the mental condition of Neal Bowman, when then under death sentence for murder.

Neal Bowman, the subject of the insanity inquests petitioned in both the Franklin and Mercer circuit courts, was indicted by the Mercer county grand jury, charged with the crime of willful murder. Upon his trial of the…