Scott v. Commonwealth

EDWARD P. HILL, Judge.

The appeal is from a judgment finding the appellant guilty of the wilful murder of Dorothy Jean Carson and fixing his penalty at death.

The evidence on the trial showed that in June 1969 the appellant shot and killed Dorothy Jean Carson in the presence of her two children in her apartment in a Louisville housing project; that the appellant and the deceased, a divorcee, had been living together for some time; that before the killing an argument was waged between the appellant and the deceased during which the appellant drew a pistol from his jacket; that he did not…