Swan v. Commonwealth
Annotate this CaseAppellants Marcus Swan and D'Andre Owens were convicted of multiple crimes related to a violent home invasion they carried out. The Supreme Court affirmed Swan's judgment of conviction and sentence in its entirety, and affirmed in part and reversed in part Owens's judgment, although his overall sentence was unaffected, holding that the trial court (1) correctly admitted into evidence the guns used in the crime; (2) properly failed to dismiss the indictment because of the destruction of other guns found in the victim's house; (3) did not err in failing to hold a hearing on Swan's right to proceed pro se or with hybrid counsel; (4) properly allowed a witness to testify in the penalty phase after having been present in the courtroom during guilt-phase testimony; (5) did not commit reversible error by evaluating the competency of a child witness in a short fashion and in the presence of the jury; (6) erred in failing to give an instruction on second-degree assault as a lesser-included offense; and (7) erred in failing to grant a directed verdict on the charge of first-degree wanton endangerment relating to Latonia Lumpkins. Accordingly, Owens's convictions for first-degree assault and first-degree wanton endangerment of Lumpkins were reversed. Remanded.
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