Rhodes v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Fulton

Affirming.

Appellant, Harrison Rhodes, is appealing from a judgment by which he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Willie Middleton, also known as Willie Lankford, but most commonly called “Skinny” Middleton.

Appellant is a man 59 years of age and lived at Sunshine in Harlan County with his sister-in-law, Martha Rhodes. They both occupied the same room and on the night of the killing, August 8, 1938, Fannie Middleton, wife of the deceased, who was a daughter of Martha Rhodes and a niece of appellant, was spending the night at the home of her…