Shepherd v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 121 — Prosecution Against William Shepherd, for Murder. APPEAL FROM LETCHER CIRCUIT COURT'-M. J. MOSS, CIRCUIT JUDGE. Defendant Convicted and Appeals.
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Case 121 — Prosecution Against William Shepherd, for Murder. APPEAL FROM LETCHER CIRCUIT COURT'-M. J. MOSS, CIRCUIT JUDGE. Defendant Convicted and Appeals. Among the many errors committed by the court on the trial of this case, we desire to call special attention to some of them. 1. The court permitted the Commonwealth to prove that after the hilling of deceased and while appellant. was being taken to jail he said: “This makes three I have knocked,” and at another time, “Old Shep took it mighty cool.” 2. Also the Commonwealth was allowed to prove the character of appellant’s wife and her…
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Opinion op the court by
JUDGE O’REAR
Reversing.
Appellant was convicted of the charge of murder, committed upon Eiley Webb. The defense was emotional insanity, and justifiable homicide under an apparent necessity. Appellant and liis wife bad become estranged and had temporarily separated about two years before the killing- of Webb. Appellant claims that the separation ivas because of Webb’s interference with the domestic relations of appellant and his wife. Just before the killing, appellant and his wife had agreed to be reconciled and to resume tlie married relation. *934For that purpose, appellant…
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