Legal Opinion

White v. Commonwealth

Kentucky Supreme Court

Decided March 16, 1989No. 88-SC-300-DGPublished

1Opinion of the Court

770 S.W.2d 222 (1989)

Joseph Carl WHITE and Marita Renee Combs, Appellants,

v.

COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

No. 88-SC-300-DG.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

March 16, 1989.

Rehearing Denied June 8, 1989.

Steven D. Yater, Louisville, for appellants.

Frederic J. Cowan, Atty. Gen., Lana Grandon, Asst. Atty. Gen., Frankfort, for appellee.

WINTERSHEIMER, Justice.

This appeal is from a decision of the Court of Appeals which held that the trial judge may resentence White as a Persistent Felony Offender II without retrial.

White and Combs were originally convicted of third-degree burglary and criminal…

Also in this document: Concurrence; Dissent.

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Burks v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
  2. Virgil L. Montgomery v. Donald E. Bordenkircher, District Superintendent, Kentucky State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1980
  3. White v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1989
  4. Commonwealth v. CrooksKentucky Supreme Court · 1983
  5. Malicoat v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1982

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