Penney v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Morris, Commissioner

Affirming.

In the early morning of Sunday, September 28, 1941, J. M. Giles, owner of a sanitarium in Fayette County, one-fourth mile from the Lexington Country Clubhouse, was aroused by the ringing of his doorbell. When he opened the door a woman clad in her night clothes fell into the hallway. Her night clothing was soaked with blood. The woman was Mrs. Elsie Miley, matron at the clubhouse, the mother of Marion Miley for whose murder appellant, Robert Anderson and Raymond Baxter were indicted, convicted and sentenced to death.

Mrs. Miley made it known…