Reed v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Perry

— Affirming.

The appellant, Alva Eeed, seeks the reversal of a. judgment convicting him of assault with intent to rob' and fixing his punishment at twenty-one years’ confinement in the state reformatory.

The punishment for this crime, denounced by Section 1160, Kentucky Statutes (which was confinement in the penitentiary for not less than five nor more than twenty years), was increased by the Legislature in 1934 to imprisonment in the penitentiary for twenty-one years or for life or death in the discretion of the jury. 1934 Acts, chapter 50, page 157.

The facts…