Thomas v. Commonwealth

MILLIKEN, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal by John Samuel Thomas, Jr., a juvenile offender, from his conviction in the Jefferson Circuit Court of the crime of robbery. His punishment was fixed at two years in the penitentiary.

Appellant was not indicted for robbery, but rather for forcibly demanding money from another person with intent to rob, which is one means of committing the crime of assault with intent to rob denounced by KRS 433.150. The punishment authorized under this statute ranges from twenty-one years in the penitentiary to life or death..The punishment authorized by KRS 433.120…