Grigsby v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by.

Chiep Justice Rees

Affirming.

At the September, 1944, term of the Perry circuit court the grand jury returned an indictment against Amos Grigsby charging him with the crime of rape. He was tried and convicted, and his punishment fixed at life imprisonment. He appealed, and this court reversed the judgment on the ground that the admission of evidence showing that the accused was a deserter from the army at the time the crime was committed was prejudicially erroneous. Grigsby v. Commonwealth, 299 Ky. 721, 187 S. W. 2d 259, 159 A. L. R. 196. He was again tried and…