Denny v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Perry

Affirming.

Parkie Denny appeals from a judgment sentencing kirn to die for the murder of his wife. He has had four trials. On the first he was sentenced to death, but the circuit court set the verdict aside on the ground of improper argument of the Commonwealth’s Attorney, which, however, we subsequently certified as not prejudicial. Commonwealth v. Denny, 271 Ky. 608, 112 S. W. (2d) 1016. The juries disagreed on the nest two' trials. The defense was insanity. The record discloses, a sordid murder by a man of low mentality.

Denny and his wife returned to the…