Legal Opinion
Thomas v. Commonwealth
Kentucky Supreme Court
Decided May 27, 1993No. 88-SC-375-MRPublishedCited by 88 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEIBSON, Justice.
On March 1, 1987, Grace Back, a 75-year old widow living alone on Sugar Branch in Redfox, Knott County, Kentucky, was slashed to death. Her mutilated body was found lying in the road 150 yards from her house. Her house had been burglarized and burned.
The appellant, Alfred Grayson Thomas, and William David Morton, who was sixteen at the time, were separately charged with her murder, and with first-degree arson and first-degree burglary. Shortly before the trial the confederate, Morton, pled guilty to murder. He then testified as the Commonwealth’s key witness at Thomas’ trial…
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