Hill v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Logan

Affirming.

It was on the 2'2d day of March, 1926, that Lillian Hill, a little girl 9 years old at the- time, returned to her home at 238 Rand avenue, Lexington, Ky., from school about noon and found her mother in a dying condition as the result of wounds about her head which had been inflicted by a hatchet. The body of her mother was in the bathroom, but her head was in the living room resting in a pool of blood which had flowed from the wounds. Her mother’s head was wrapped tightly in a rug, and she was unconscious. The little girl hurried to her and tried to…