Smith v. Commonwealth

LAMBERT, Justice.

This appeal is from the final judgment of the Floyd Circuit Court whereby appellant was found guilty of manslaughter in the first degree for the beating death of her 72-year-old husband, Simson “Smitty” Smith. At the time of his death, appellant and Smith had been married for about two years and she was twenty-one years of age.

As appellant makes no claim of insufficiency of evidence to sustain the jury verdict, it is unnecessary to extensively discuss the evidence. For our purposes, it is sufficient to state that on the afternoon of May 6, 1992, appellant called an ambulance…