Drake v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Perry

— Affirming.

The appellant, Alford Drake, prosecutes this appeal from a judgment entered on a verdict of the jury finding him guilty of murder and fixing his punishment at death.

It appears from the record that both the deceased and appellant are negroes who at the time the offense here in evidence was committed lived in Louisville, Ky., where the deceased, James Edward. Simpson, was employed and serving as a merchant-policeman..

The appellant, Drake, a younger man, was caught-by the deceased officer on the early morning of April 14,. 1935, as he was coming out,…