Peck v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court ©y

Judge Tilforb

Reversing

The appellant was convicted of the crime of “armed robbery” and sentenced to imprisonment for life. His victim was F. D. Cunningham, the proprietor of a store on the Mayfield Road near Paducah, who testified that he had been forced to enter a car operated by appellant and a woman companion, driven to a point about a mile away from his store and allowed to leave the car upon surrendering to appellant the money on his person amounting to approximately $50. His entrance into the ear was compelled by appellant’s act in pressing a pistol into his side…