Legal Opinion
Bray v. Commonwealth
Kentucky Supreme Court
Decided September 22, 2005No. 2003-SC-0656-MRPublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the Court by
Justice COOPER.
In the early morning hours of November 8,1982, a mobile home in Marshall County, Kentucky, burned to the ground. Inside, police found the bodies of Audrey Bray and her mother, Effie York, each with a gunshot wound to the head. Appellant, Steven Bray, who was Audrey’s husband and Effie’s son-in-law, was charged with the crimes.
In August 1998, a Marshall Circuit Court jury convicted Appellant of two counts of murder, KRS 507.020(1), and one count of arson in the first degree, KRS 513.020, and sentenced him to life in prison for each conviction. In Bray v.…
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- Commonwealth v. SawhillKentucky Supreme Court · 1983
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