Shoemaker v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Chiep Justice Rees

Affirming.

Herbert Shoemaker and Retha Anderson have been convicted of the crime defined by KRS 433.150, which reads: “Any person who, with an offensive weapon or instrument, unlawfully and maliciously assaults another, or who in any forcible and violent manner demands any money, goods or chattels, bond, bill, deed or will or other evidence of right, or other thing of value from any person, with an intent to rob or commit a robbery upon him, shall be punished by confinement in the penitentiary for twenty-one years' or for life, or by death. ’ ’

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