Legal Opinion
Hodge v. Commonwealth
Kentucky Supreme Court
Decided June 15, 2000No. 1996-SC-1085-MRPublishedCited by 88 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COOPER, Justice.
Following a trial by jury in the Laurel Circuit Court in October 1996, Appellant Benny Lee Hodge was convicted of two counts of murder, one count of robbery in the first degree, and one count of burglary in the first degree. He was sentenced to death for each murder conviction and to twenty years each for the robbery and burglary convictions. He appeals to this Court as a matter of right. Ky. Const. § 110(2)(b).
I. FACTS.
On June 16, 1985, Edwin and Bessie Morris were murdered in their home in Gray Hawk, Jackson County, Kentucky. Edwin Morris’s body was found lying on the…
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