Triplett v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner—

Affirming.

This is a companion case to Johnson v. Common wealth, 245 Ky. 146, 52 S. W. (2d) -, this day decided. That opinion is referred to for the essential facts of the killing’ of Tom Lncas, a deputy sheriff of Knott county.

The appellant, G-arlie Triplett, and Irton Caudill, Virgil Caudill, and Shelby Hall, were jointly indicted with Lee Johnson for the crime of murder. Upon a separate trial of Triplett and the three others from Johnson, the jury found Triplett guilty of manslaughter and fixed his punishment at three years in prison, but failed…