Bowler v. Commonwealth

LUKOWSKY, Justice.

Bowler was convicted of murder and sentenced to twenty years in the state penitentiary by the Graves Circuit Court. He prosecutes this appeal on five assignments of error. Two of these assignments are dis-positive of the appeal and require this court to reverse the conviction and to remand the case for a new trial.

Sometime between noon and 1:00 p.m. on Friday, May 7, 1976, Bowler’s wife was stabbed to death in their trailer home. There were no “eyeball” witnesses. The Commonwealth’s case was wholly circumstantial. The defense was alibi.

The prosecution’s theory was that…