Riley v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Reversing.

The appellant, Otto Riley, has been sentenced to the penitentiary for two years for the crime of exploding dynamite or other explosive substances under the house of Luther Lyttle. Section 1375, Kentucky Statutes.

Lyttle lived up Buck fork of Meadow creek in Owsley county. The defendant was staying with his mother about 300 yards away. The parties had been friends up to the time, according to Lyttle, that he had mistreated a little girl at his house; but according to Riley up to the time he had refused to let Lyttle have his pistol to shoot…