McPeak v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Van Sant, Commissioner

—Affirming.

This is an appeal by the secondly convicted member of a trio, all of whom, on separate trials before different juries, were found guilty and sentenced to death for the offense denounced by KRS 433.140, by robbing Vernon Hodges with the use of a deadly weapon. Jasper Nease and Herbert Workman were appellant’s accomplices. Nease was convicted first, and the opinion affirming the-judgment in that case was rendered by this Court ou April 23, 1948, and is reported in 307 Ky. 640, 211 S. W. 2d 826. Since the evidence for the Commonwealth in…