SCOTT v. COMMONWEALTH


495 S.W.2d 800 (1972)

Reginald David SCOTT, a/k/a Reginald Anthony Davis, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

As Modified on Denial of Rehearing June 29, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel T. Taylor, III, John Tim McCall, Charles Scott, Louisville, for appellant.

John B. Breckinridge, Atty. Gen., John M. Famularo, Asst. Atty. Gen., Frankfort, for appellee.


EDWARD P. HILL, Judge.

The appeal is from a judgment finding the appellant guilty of the wilful murder of Dorothy Jean Carson and fixing his penalty at death.

The evidence on the trial showed that in June 1969 the appellant shot and killed Dorothy Jean Carson in the presence of her two children in her apartment in a Louisville housing project; that the appellant and the deceased, a divorcee, had been living together for some time; that before the killing an...

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