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Bellew v. Commonwealth

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided March 3, 1972PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MILLIKEN, Judge.

Sergeant Jessie James Bellew was indicted for the fatal shooting of his wife Dianne with a pistol in their trailer home near Ft. Knox on February 18, 1968, just a few days before he was scheduled to depart for service in Germany, intending to leave his twenty-one-year-old wife of three months and her three-year-old daughter in this country. Bellew claimed the killing was accidental and on two previous trials the juries were not able to reach a verdict, but on the third trial he was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to eighteen years’ imprisonment. He did not…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Harrington v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  2. Cotton v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1970
  3. Whittaker v. ThornberryCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1948
  4. Dolan v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1971
  5. Cowan v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1966

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3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Buckler v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1976
  2. Rabovsky v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1998
  3. Garner v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1983
  4. Payne v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1974
  5. Rabovsky v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1998

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