Todd v. Commonwealth

WHITE, Justice.

This appeal is taken from the Estill Circuit Court in which Appellant Charles Edward Todd was convicted of wanton murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.

On May 27, 1983, Todd summoned an ambulance for his mother from the residence of his aunt, Grace McKee. Mrs. McKee was an arthritic invalid with whom Appellant frequently stayed. Mrs. Todd also occasionally tended to her sister and evidently had been in the home since May 21.

When the ambulance driver arrived, he found Mrs. Todd on the living room floor and was told that she had fallen over a footstool. The driver thought…