Legal Opinion

Kroth v. Commonwealth

Kentucky Supreme Court

Decided September 3, 1987No. 86-SC-719-MRPublishedCited by 17 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

WINTERSHEIMER, Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment based on a jury verdict which convicted Kroth of third-degree burglary, two counts of trafficking in a controlled substance and two counts of first-degree persistent felony offender. He was sentenced to twenty years in prison.

The principal issue is whether convictions under two counts of possession of a con*681trolled substance amounted to double jeopardy; other questions presented are whether the prosecutor’s reference to allegedly inadmissible hearsay evidence in his opening statement was reversible error; whether it was reversible error to…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Wingo v. RingoCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1966

3Cited by17 opinions

  1. Stringer v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1997
  2. Dixon v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2004
  3. Sargent v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1991
  4. Williams v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2006
  5. Commonwealth v. DerringerKentucky Supreme Court · 2012

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