Scamahorne v. Commonwealth

STEWART, Chief Justice.

Appellant, Joe Scamahorne, was convicted in the Nelson Circuit Court of the offense of carrying concealed a deadly weapon. See KRS 435.230(1). He was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary.

The judgment must be reversed because another crime of which appellant was accused was injected into the trial. The pertinent facts in this connection reveal that appellant was apprehended at B alltown in Nelson County under a warrant which issued from Barren County, the arrest having been made by two detectives of the Kentucky State Police. It developed that appellant then had…