Roberts v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner-—

Affirming.

Clayton Roberts appeals from a judgment of conviction of the killing of Delbert Trimble and his sentence of imprisonment for 21 years.

The appellant left his home in Oampton with a pistol in his pocket. At Jackson he got with a woman, not Ms wife, and on Saturday, December 23, 1944, went to West Liberty, taking the woman and four quarts of whiskey. They arrived there about 8 o’clock and went to the restaurant of Marie West, to whom the defendant had rented some juke boxes. He had gone there, he testified, to see about some trouble with…