Warmke v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Chief Justice Fulton

Affirming.

This appeal is from a manslaughter sentence of nine years imposed on the appellant in connection with th,e death of her infant child. The sole ground urged for reversal was that the corpus delicti was .not sufficiently shown.

The appellant resided in Utica, a village in Daviess County. Some weeks prior to July 8, 1943 she went to Louisville and there gave birth to an illegitimate child. On July 8, 1943, she traveled to Cloverport, in Breckinridge County, by bus arriving about 8 o’clock p. m. It was raining very hard and she went into a drug…