DODSON v. COM.

No. 87-SC-308-MR.

753 S.W.2d 548 (1988)

David S. DODSON, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

June 30, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Russell J. Baldani, Fayette County Legal Aid, Inc., Lexington, for appellant.

Frederic J. Cowan, Atty. Gen., Elizabeth Myerscough, Asst. Atty. Gen., Frankfort, for appellee.


VANCE, Justice.

The appellant was convicted on two charges of first-degree robbery and as a second-degree persistent felon.

He contends on appeal that the admission of an out-of-court statement of a codefendant who refused to testify at trial was prejudicial error. The codefendant, Timothy Reed, had negotiated a plea bargain whereby he was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment on one charge of burglary and six other counts of the indictment against him were...

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