Craft v. Commonwealth

Stanley, Commissioner

Reversing.

The death penalty, has been decreed for the appellant, Jake President Craft, for the crime of robbery coirmitted with the nse of a deadly weapon. KRS 433.140.

'The case is unusual in that there is no contradiction in.the evidence. The Commonwealth proved a customer entering a liquor store met two young Negros coming out. She found the clerk, Milton Zimmerman, in a back room seriously wounded. The police soon arrived and quickly arrested the men not far away. They had money, whiskey and a wedding ring taken from Zimmerman and the store. The men readily admitted…