Tinsley v. Commonwealth

STANLEY, Commissioner.

Sol Tinsley appeals a judgment of conviction of robbery carrying a penalty of ten years imprisonment. KRS 433.120. He, Henry Mills and Narvel Tinsley were jointly indicted for armed robbery. KRS 433.140. It appears that Mills was tried first and convicted. Sol and Narvel Tins-ley were tried jointly.

Chester Payne, the victim of the robbery, was employed by a coal company to weigh and sell coal at a point about four miles north of Pineville near a plant of the Kentucky Utilities Company. About nine o’clock on the night of April 3, 1953, while at work, he was violently…