Keller v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Commissioner Stanley—

Affirming.

The appellants, John Keller and James Grigsby, colored, have been condemned to die for the murder of Harry S. Long, an elderly watchman at the Community Laundry, in Louisville. Their guilt is clearly established out of their own mouths, and that of their confederate in the crime, Richard Edmonds, who also has been given the extreme penalty on a separate trial and whose case has been affirmed within the past, few days. See Edmonds v. Commonwealth, 230 Ky. 725, 20 S. W. (2d) —.

There are no extenuating or mitigating circumstances. The murder…