Hall v. Kentucky
Annotate this CaseAppellant Douglas Hall appeals his conviction of second-degree manslaughter, first-degree assault, first-degree burglary, first-degree robbery and a sentence of forty-five years' imprisonment. Contending that various errors occurred from the indictment stage through the penalty phase of trial, Appellant argues that his convictions should be reversed and his case remanded for a new trial. On review of the record, the Supreme Court reversed Appellant's first-degree assault conviction due to the lower court's erroneous refusal to instruct the jury on facilitation of assault, but held that Appellant is not entitled to any further relief for other alleged errors as he "received a fundamentally fair trial with any [other] errors being so minor that even their cumulative effect does not demand reversal."
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