Robinson v. Commonwealth

STEWART, Justice.

On January 31, 1951, James I. Robinson was convicted in the Jefferson Circuit Court, Criminal Division, of the crime of wilful murder and his punishment was fixed at death. Robinson appeals on the grounds (a) that the lower court erred when it overruled his motion to stay proceedings in his trial until his sanity could be determined and (b) that, since there was a trial, the verdict of the jury was not a fair and impartial one.

Robinson in a written statement before his trial and by his testimony at the trial confessed to strangling three-year old Joyce Joan Shouse to death at…