FIELDS v. COM.

No. 1997-SC-0424-MR.

12 S.W.3d 275 (2000)

Samuel Steven FIELDS, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

February 24, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Oleh R. Tustaniwsky, Thomas M. Ransdell, Assistant Public Advocates, Department of Public Advocacy, Frankfort, for appellant.

A.B. Chandler, III, Attorney General, Frankfort, David A. Smith, Kent T. Young, Dana M. Todd, Assistant Attorneys General, Office of Attorney General, Criminal Appellate Division, Frankfort, for appellee.


COOPER, Justice.

During the early morning hours of August 19, 1993, Bess Horton was murdered in the bedroom of her home in Grayson, Kentucky. Her throat was slashed, and she was stabbed in the head with such force that the knife buried to the hilt in her right temple and the point of the blade protruded from her left temple. Officers Ron Lindeman and Larry Green of the Grayson Police Department were in the neighborhood investigating...

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