Risner v. Commonwealth

MILLIKEN, Justice.

The appellant, Fritz Risner, was found guilty of the' murder of Bill Campbell, which occurred in Perry County shortly before dawn on Sunday, May 7, 1950, and his punishment fixed at life imprisonment. The fact that', .appellant -shot and’drilled Bill Campbell with a twenty-two rifle ■ at the time and place stated in the indictment was admitted. Mrs. Hammonds was Ris-ner’s widowed sister, and he was staying with her in the building where she and Campbell, who .also lived there, had intended to open, a restaurant.

The grounds urged for reversal are: (1) That the verdict was…