Reed v. Commonwealth

LAMBERT, Justice.

Appellant was convicted of one count of rape in the first degree and sentenced to a term of twenty years in the penitentiary. He appeals to this Court as a matter of right claiming prejudicial error in the eight-year delay between the occurrence of the crime and formal charging. He also contends that the trial court erred to his prejudice in permitting a social worker to testify from departmental records, and claims prejudicial error in the failure of the trial court to give an instruction on sexual abuse in the second degree.

In 1985, appellant was indicted for five counts of…