Harris v. Commonwealth

SPAIN, Justice.

Harris was convicted by a Fayette County jury of second-degree burglary, first-degree rape, and attempted first-degree sodomy. The jury recommended Harris’s punishment be fixed at five years for the burglary, nineteen years for the rape, and five years for the attempted sodomy, the sentences to be run consecutively. Pursuant to the jury’s recommendation, the trial court ordered Harris to serve a total prison sentence of twenty-nine years.

The victim testified that on July 7, 1989, she had gone to bed in her trailer home at around 11:00 p.m. She was later awakened by a man…