WILKEY v. COMMONWEALTH


452 S.W.2d 420 (1970)

Ernest Red WILKEY, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

Rehearing Denied May 1, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard R. Bryan, R. L. Myre, Sr., James Owens, Paducah, for appellant.

John B. Breckinridge, Atty. Gen., James H. Barr, Asst. Atty. Gen., Frankfort, for appellee.


EDWARD P. HILL, Jr., Chief Justice.

Appellant Ernest "Red" Wilkey was indicted for the wilful murder of Thomas Marshall Turner, found guilty of voluntary manslaughter, and given the maximum penalty of twenty-one years in prison (KRS 435.020). He assigns a number of grounds on which he seeks a reversal of the judgment of conviction, which we shall not catalogue here but discuss later. Finding no merit in any of the grounds, we affirm the judgment.

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