Hill v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Clay

Reversing.

B. E. Hill appeals from a judgment convicting him of willful murder, and fixing his punishment at life imprisonment.

The facts are these: Appellant was chief of the fire department of the city of Hazard, and, when not so engaged, acted as. traffic policeman. On the occasion of the homicide he was acting as traffic officer at Walker-town, a suburb of the city of Hazard. At that point there were no sidewalks, and there was a large ■ amount of traffic on the street, particularly on Saturday evening. About dusk on Saturday evening, September 6, 1930,…