Osborne v. Commonwealth

COOPER, Justice.

I. FACTS.

Sometime after 12:30 a.m. on December 14, 1997, Sam and Lillian Davenport, ages 82 and 76 respectively, died in a fire that consumed their residence on highway 1804 in Whitley County, Kentucky. Forensic testing revealed the presence of an accel-erant in the room where the bodies were found and on a portion of Mrs. Davenport’s clothing, indicating the fire had been intentionally set. Autopsies revealed that each victim had sustained a cranial injury consistent with blunt force trauma, but that the cause of death in each instance was smoke inhalation.

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