Simpson v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the. Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Affirming.

As stated in Gray v. Commonwealth, 293 Ky. 833, S. W. (2d) • — , the appellant, Archie Simpson, and William Gray, following an afternoon of drinking, waited or pursued Byrd Taulbee for the purpose of robbing him. Earlier that day Simpson had stolen a box containing about one hundred pennies from Taulbee ’s store while he and Gray were in there together. Under an overhead railroad, Simpson grabbed Taulbee, and, while he was wrestling with him on the ground, Gray struck him with a paving brick and fractured his skull. He died that night.…