WOMBLES v. COM.

No. 91-SC-384-MR.

831 S.W.2d 172 (1992)

Ed WOMBLES, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

May 14, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kathy L. Hornaday, Owensboro, for appellant.

Chris Gorman, Atty. Gen., Ann Louise Cheuvront, Asst. Atty. Gen., Crim. Appellate Div., Frankfort, for appellee.


SPAIN, Justice.

Ed Wombles, age fifty-one, was convicted by a Clay County jury on six counts of first-degree rape of his eleven-year-old daughter, Lisa. Wombles received a total sentence of forty years.

Lisa was a fifth-grade student enrolled in special education classes at Manchester Elementary School. A social worker, Vern Webb, testified that he had worked with Lisa in 1990. Webb described Lisa as having a level of intelligence lower than her chronological...

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