Lanford v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Dietzman

Affirming-

Appellant was tried under two indictments charging him with the offense of robbery. He was found guilty and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment in each case. By agreement the two cases were heard together in the lower court and here.

It appears that appellant was a prisoner in the Harlan county jail, and while -such, Dewey Wynn and G-oebel Wynn came to the jail for the purpose of visiting some friends therein; that while they were in one of the cells the defendant, armed with a large broom handle or stick, placed himself in the doorway of the…