Perry v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Affirming.

The appellant, Levada Perry, has been sentenced to one year imprisonment for violating KRS 436.030, which reads as follows:

“Any woman who is delivered of any issue of her body, which, if born alive, would be a bastard, and who endeavors privately by drowning or secretly burying the child or in any other way, directly or indirectly, to conceal the birth of the child, so that it may not be known whether the child was born alive or not, shall be confined in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than five years.”

The evidence…