Bircham v. Commonwealth

VAN SANT, ¡Commissioner..

Appellant and his wife, in a Packard automobile, were passing .through a small city (not otherwise identified) a; few miles south of' Louisville on the evening of August 14, 1949. Appellant was fleeing from the state of Kansas to avoid confinement after conviction for- the crime of robbery. His wife was fleeing from the state of Alabama to avoid’ prosecution in the United States Courts for harboring her husband. They knew:.that -agents of the Federal Bureau -of Investigation were looking for them, if not in actual pursuit. They had intended to stop at the home of a…