Hutsell v. Commonwealth

SIMS, Justice.

Appellant, Willa Mae Hutsell, was sentenced to the penitentiary for one year for violating KRS 436.030, which makes it a felony for a woman to' conceal the birth of a bastard child so that it may not be known whether the child was born alive. Three grounds are assigned for reversal: 1. A verdict should have been directed in her behalf; 2. incompetent evidence was admitted over her objection; 3. the court failed to instruct on the whole law of the case.

There is practically no conflict in the evidence. The Commonwealth’s proof *899shows that appellant, an unmarried colorei girl, lived…