Holbrook v. Commonwealth

SPAIN, Justice.

Appellant, age twenty-five, was convicted by a jury of the intentional murder of sixty-year-old Lee Watson by shooting him once in the abdomen and seven times in the back with a .22 caliber pump rifle. Hol-brook was then sentenced to confinement for a period of forty-five years.

Maston Holbrook, appellant’s father, had spent the evening hours of October 26, 1988, sitting in the family room of his trailer home drinking whiskey with his boyhood friend, Lee Watson, while appellant sat watching television. According to appellant, Watson wanted to start a fight with him because…