Legal Opinion

Waggner v. Commonwealth

Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)

Decided September 26, 1944PublishedCited by 10 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Harris

Affirming.

The appellant was convicted of robbery and sentenced to seven years’ confinement in the State Reformatory at La Grange. On this appeal from that conviction she complains (1) her motion for peremptory instruction should have been sustained, (2) the instructions were erroneous in that they did not require the jury to believe a state of facts constituting robbery, (3) there was no instruction on grand larceny, and (4) if the instruction on robbery was proper, then the verdict was against and not supported by the evidence.

The indictment in apt and…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Armstrong v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1921
  2. Philpot v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1931

3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Manson v. StateWisconsin Supreme Court · 1981
  2. State v. LevesqueSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1971
  3. Montgomery v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1961
  4. Underwood v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1965
  5. Smith v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1971

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