Campbell v. Commonwealth

LAMBERT, Justice.

Appellant Bethalene Campbell appeals to this Court as a matter of right from her conviction of first degree manslaughter for the killing of her former high school teacher, Frankie Joe Williams.

Appellant raises eight allegations of error. Some of the facts of the case are in dispute, but basically the events are as follows. Appellant, a resident of Hazard, Kentucky, married during her last year of high school and subsequently “dropped out.” Her husband enlisted in the Army and the couple moved to Alabama where her husband took his course in basic training. While in Alabama,…