Legal Opinion
Partin v. Commonwealth
Kentucky Supreme Court
Decided March 21, 1996No. 94-SC-768-MRPublishedCited by 127 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GRAVES, Justice.
A Knox County jury convicted the appellant Delmar Partin of the murder of his estranged paramour Betty Carnes. From a sentence of life imprisonment he appeals to this court as a matter of right.
Sunday, September 26,1993, Betty Carnes disappeared from her job site at the Tremco plant in Barbourville. On September 27, 1993, her decapitated body was found in a *221fifty-five gallon barrel in the plant laboratory. The autopsy disclosed the cause of death was a blunt-force injury to the head consistent with being struck by a metal pipe that was found in the barrel. Also, Ms. Carnes had…
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