Terry v. Commonwealth

DAVIS, Commissioner.

John Terry was convicted of armed robbery, as denounced by KRS 433.140. His punishment was fixed at imprisonment for ten years. He prosecutes this appeal from that conviction, asserting as charges of error that (1) the trial court erred in permitting evidence of other crimes by the accused; (2) prejudicial error occurred in connection v/ith impeachment of a witness for the appellant; and (3) the court failed to instruct on the whole law of the case.

According to the evidence for the Commonwealth, Cloyd Vance, a man then seventy-seven years of age, was lying on his bed…