Edwards v. Commonwealth

CLAYTON, Justice.

This appeal results from a judgment of conviction entered upon a jury verdict finding the defendant guilty of murder, KRS 507.020, and sentencing her to 20 years’ imprisonment. Six errors warranting reversal of this conviction are alleged to have been committed by the trial court.

On the morning of January 17,1976, Maj. Thomas B. Basehart, a United States Army officer stationed at Fort Knox, accompanied his wife and two daughters to the Oxmoor Shopping Center in Louisville for a day of shopping. Desiring to purchase a birthday present for one of the daughters, they visited…