Bartrug v. Commonwealth

MARTIN, Chief Judge.

Herbert Donley Bartrug, appellant, was indicted by the Nelson County Grand Jury on November 8, 1976, for the offense of murder in violation of KRS 507.020. Specifically the indictment charged that, “On or about the 15th day of June 1976, in Nelson County, Kentucky, the above named Defendant committed the crime of murder in that with intent to cause the death of another person, to-wit: Yvonne Hardin Thornsberry, he did shoot the said Yvonne Hardin Thornsberry with a .25 caliber automatic pistol from which wounds the said Yvonne Hardin Thornsberry did die.”

Appellant, who was…