Thompson v. Commonwealth

OPINION OF THE COURT

This is a direct appeal from the judgment of the Lyon Circuit Court which sentenced the appellant, William Eugene Thompson, to death following a conviction of murder. He also received consecutive terms of twenty years for first degree robbery and ten years for first degree escape.

FACTS

Appellant had been convicted of murder, in 1974, in Pike County and was serving time therefor. Prior to the incident which led to the indictment, conviction and this appeal, appellant had been transferred from the Kentucky State Reformatory to the Western Kentucky Farm Center in Lyon County.…