Lotheridge v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Richardson —

Affirming.

On the night of December 5, 1931, Theodore Fitchen was mortally wounded, while on the public highway near the corporate limits of Carrollton, Carroll county, Ky. At the point where he was discovered, his automobile was parked and burning. He was found lying opposite a ditch on the right-hand side of the highway within a few feet of the automobile, in an unconscious condition. “He had fourteen lacerations of the skull. A fracture of the frontal bone and a fracture of the occipital bone; ’ ’ his back, left side, arms, and head were severely…