Southworth v. Commonwealth
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Appellant was convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to life imprisonment. The Supreme Court reversed the conviction, holding (1) the evidence was sufficient to deny Appellant’s motion for a directed verdict of acquittal and did not require unreasonable inferences for the jury to reach a guilt verdict; but (2) the trial court erred in admitting testimony about an unrelated incident involving a used condom, as the evidence was impermissible evidence of other acts under Ky. R. Evid. 404(b) given the Commonwealth’s failure to establish proof of the factual condition necessary to make it relevant, and the error was not harmless. Remanded.
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