Fields v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Justice CUNNINGHAM.

Appellant, Samuel Steven Fields, was convicted of murder and first-degree burglary and sentenced to death. He appeals to this Court as a matter of right, Ky. Const. § 110(2)(b), raising forty-nine allegations of error. For the reasons set forth herein, we affirm the judgment.

Background

Appellant was convicted of the murder of Bess Horton. During the early morning hours of August 19, 1993, two Grayson police officers responded to a call from the duplex apartment of Elmer Pritchard. Pritchard rented the apartment from Bess Horton, whose own single-family…