Bailey v. Commonwealth

Stanley, Commissioner

Affirming.

This is a record of a sordid, heinous crime. The appellant, Wesley Bailey, was convicted of raping an elderly woman, and his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for life without privilege of parole. KRS 435.090.

Mrs. Lottie Adkins, who was about 68 years old, and her husband, 81 years old, white people, lived in a settlement of colored people in Williamsburg. About one o’clock on a Saturday night in July, 1948, the defendant and his brother, Ernest Bailey, young Negroes, knocked on their door and upon being asked who was there, the defendant…