Baker v. Commonwealth

Judge Knight

Affirming.

Statement of the Case.

Appellant John Baker was indicted in the Fayette Circuit Court for the wilful murder of Eugene Sowers. On trial of the case he was convicted and his punishment fixed at life imprisonment. He prosecutes this appeal from a judgment based on that verdict.

Appellant was 55 years of age when he married, as his second wife, Alice Hoskins 20 years of age, on February 28, 1948. This December-May marriage did not long remain a happy one and within a few months thereafter she began going out on unexplained absences from their apartment home in Richmond where…