Richardson v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Rees —

Reversing.

Dewey Richardson has appealed from a judgment sentencing him to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary for the murder of G-oebel Fraley. He insists that the verdict is flagrantly against the evidence, and that the court erred in failing to instruct the jury on the whole law of the case.

In the afternoon of April 17, 1937, appellant left his mother’s home in Estill county, and drove in an automobile to Beattyville to take a train for Hazard in Perry county, where he had been working in a coal mine. The car was owned and driven by Arkansas…