Easley v. Commonwealth

MONTGOMERY, Judge.

James Anderson Easley was convicted of robbery of a safe and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. Subsequently, he was convicted of burglary under another indictment, which judgment has been affirmed. Easley v. Commonwealth, Ky., 320 S.W.2d 778. On this appeal, he urges that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the verdict.

Easley had been employed as a chauffeur and handyman by William Marshall Bullitt, now deceased, at the latter’s estate in Jefferson County, known as Oxmoor. Several months before the robbery, while working in the Bullitt library, appellant saw the…