Rowe v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Tilpord

Affirming.

The appellants were jointly indicted for the crime of armed robbery defined by Section 1159a, Kentucky Statutes, tried together, and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary. The robbery took place in daylight on a public road following a most brutal assault committed upon the prosecuting witness and his wife, and consisted of the forcible taking of $1.20 by one of the assailants from the prosecuting witness’s pocket while the other assailant kept him covered with a pistol. The appellants admitted the assault upon the prosecuting witness…