Death row inmate asking high court to review case

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky death row inmate is asking the state Supreme Court to review his conviction in a 1985 slaying that left a woman dead and her father injured.

Earlier this month, the justices granted for 64-year-old Roger Dale Epperson the right to file his appeal as a pauper.

A jury convicted Epperson and a co-defendant, 63-year-old Benny Lee Hodge, of attacking Tammy Acker and the attack on her father, Dr. Roscoe Acker, in the Fleming-Neon community of Letcher County. The group stole more than $2 million. Dr. Acker survived a strangulation attempt. Tammy Acker was more than a dozen times with a knife. She was a college student due to return to school.

Another co-defendant, 56-year-old Donald Terry Bartley, pleaded guilty to playing a role in the 1985 slaying.

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