Burnett v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Turner

Reversing.

Appellant was indicted in the Whitley Circuit Court charged with the murder of his wife, Bertha Burnett. On his trial he was found guilty and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for life, and from that judgment he has appealed.

Appellant was about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years of age, and had been twice married. By his first wife he had three children and was then divorced from her. By his last wife he had one child, an infant about eighteen months of age at the time of the homicide. He and his wife and this infant were living in a…