Alford v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Rees

Affirming.

Tbe appellants, Tom Alford and C. H. Bnrdh, were indicted by the grand jury of Fayette county for feloniously attempting to open a safe with explosives, a crime denounced bv section 1159a of tbe Kentucky Statutes. Upon tbeir trial they were convicted and each was sentenced to serve twenty years in tbe state penitentiary.

Tbe following grounds are relied upon for a reversal of tbe judgment: (1) Failure of tbe trial court to instruct tbe jury on tbe law of entrapment; (2) failure of tbe court to give definition of the crime of safe blowing; (3) refusal…