Legal Opinion
Fields v. Commonwealth
Kentucky Supreme Court
Decided February 24, 2000No. 1997-SC-0424-MRPublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COOPER, Justice.
During the early morning hours of August 19, 1993, Bess Horton was murdered in the bedroom of her home in Grayson, Kentucky. Her throat was slashed, and she was stabbed in the head with such force that the knife buried to the hilt in her right temple and the point of the blade protruded from her left temple. Officers Ron Lindeman and Larry Green of the Grayson Police Department were in the neighborhood investigating a suspected burglary when they saw a light in the Horton residence. Lindeman entered Mrs. Horton’s bedroom through an open window and discovered her body lying in…
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