Whack v. Commonwealth

STEWART, Judge.

Calón W. Whack was convicted of the offense of wilfully murdering his wife, Lula Mae Whack, and the punishment imposed by the jury verdict was imprisonment for life. He has appealed from the *858judgment entered, urging these grounds for reversal: (1) The court erred in overruling his motion to suppress the evidence contained in certain alleged confessions made by him; and (2) the court erred in overruling his motion for a directed verdict. As these two grounds dovetail into each other we shall consider them together.

Whack, a twenty-year-old soldier stationed at Ft. Knox, lived…