Legal Opinion
Pankey v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)
Decided October 6, 1972PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VANCE, Commissioner.
Carl Sims Pankey, Thomas Leonard Pope, Leonard Daniel Spears and Verser Joseph Swaite, hereinafter referred to as Pankey, Pope, Spears and Swaite, respectively, appeal from judgments sentencing each of them to life imprisonment for armed robbery and sentencing each of them to death for murder. They were indicted jointly, tried together, and their appeals have been consolidated for consideration in this court.
On September 1, 1967, a supermarket in Louisville, Kentucky, was robbed at gunpoint by three men. They took $3,000.00 from the store including approximately twenty…
2Cases cited22 opinions
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