MASON v. COMMONWEALTH

No. 2009-SC-000070-MR.

331 S.W.3d 610 (2011)

Bernard MASON, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

January 20, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

V. Gene Lewter , Department of Public Advocacy, Frankfort, KY, Counsel for Appellant.

Jack Conway , Attorney General of Kentucky, William Bryan Jones , Office of the Attorney General, Office of Criminal Appeals, Frankfort, KY, Counsel for Appellee.


Opinion of the Court by Chief Justice MINTON.

Bernard Mason appeals as a matter of right1 from a circuit court judgment sentencing him to twenty years' imprisonment after a jury convicted him of one count of first-degree criminal abuse and of being a second-degree persistent felony offender (PFO 2). Mason contends that he was entitled to a directed verdict on the abuse and PFO charges and that the jury instruction on the abuse charge violated...

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