Kesterson v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Clay

Reversing.

Leonard Kesterson appeals from a seven-year sentence for robbery.'

For the commonwealth, Beeler Moore testified in substance as follows: On the evening of August 11, 1932, he was returning from town where he had taken a load of watermelons. Just before sundown _ he was stopped by three men. One of them, Ed Mathis,- stepped in front of the mules. Leonard Kesterson then came out of the weeds and covered him with a gun and told him to get out. He declined to get out, and Leonard then took hold of his sleeve, jerked him out of the wagon, backed him up…