Marlowe v. Commonwealth

STEPHENS, Chief Justice.

Appellant Hugh Marlowe appeals his conviction for murder and robbery and his subsequent sentence to death. We affirm the judgment of the Harlan Circuit Court.

Appellant was indicted on November 23, 1981 for murder and ten days later was indicted for first degree robbery. Both charges arose out of the same incident involving the death of seventy-eight year old Henry Hamlin. On the evening of his arrest appellant gave a statement to a police detective that he and George Owens had been present when a friend, Larry Wilkerson, killed and robbed the victim. He claimed that…