Postell v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

The appellant, Frank Postell, prosecutes this appeal from a judgment of the Christian Circuit Court, sentencing him to death for the murder of J. J. Robertson, by striking, beating and wounding the deceased with a stick, stone or other blunt, deadly instrument, from which he died within a few days thereafter. The crime was committed some time in the afternoon of February 11, 1916, a short- distance out of the city of Hopkins-ville, and on .or near the track of Illinois Central Railroad.

Several errors are complained of on this appeal, but only two…