Dillingham v. Commonwealth

COMBS, Justice.

Anna Louise Dillingham has filed motion for an appeal from a judgment sentencing her to 90 days in jail on a charge of involuntary manslaughter. The indictment charged her with contributing to the death of Ronald Hope, a two-year old child, by surreptitiously abandoning her duties as a “baby sitter” and.going out on a date with a soldier. During her absence the house in which Ronald and his sister, age 21 months, were asleep caught fire and the children suffocated.

No supersedeas bond was executed and it appears from the record that appellant has served the jail sentence…