Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) October 20, 1936 (Whitfield v. Commonwealth)

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Richardson

— Reversing.

David Whitfield, Sidney Diehm, and Edward Sanford Garrison were jointly indicted for the crime of willful murder, committed by setting on fire a house and burning to death Mary Lou Rardin, an infant. Diehm entered a plea of guilty. The jury fixed his punishment at confinement in the State Reformatory for life.