Taylor v. Commonwealth

CULLEN, Commissioner.

As a result of a beating administered to his three-year-old step-daughter, Raymond Taylor was convicted of malicious assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, KRS 435.170(2), and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. His principal contentions on this appeal are that the evidence was insufficient to sustain a conviction of the crime charged, and that the instructions were erroneous.

The evidence shows that on at least three different occasions during the day of July 17, 1956, Taylor beat the little girl with a switch or stick about the size of his little…