Lefevers v. Commonwealth

STERNBERG, Justice.

On November 5, 1974, John Slusher, a grocer, was shot to death and robbed in his store. On September 14, 1976, the appellant, Billy Charles Lefevers, was indicted by the Bell County Grand Jury for the offenses of murder and robbery. A five-day trial ended with the jury finding appellant guilty of the crime of murder in the commission of robbery and he was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Mitchell Saylor was also charged with the same offenses by separate indictment. He plea bargained and received a lesser sentence.

On this appeal appellant cites five errors, each of which it…