Commonwealth v. Taylor

MEMORANDUM OPINION OF THE COURT

The Commonwealth appeals from the trial court’s order granting probation to the appel-lee who was convicted by a jury of sodomy in the first degree and sexual abuse in the first degree. Having considered the record and briefs of the parties, we reverse.

Tommy Reed Taylor, appellee, was convicted by a jury on January 31, 1994, of sodomy in the first degree (KRS 510.070) and sexual abuse in the first degree (KRS 510.110) in the Fayette Circuit Court and sentenced to twenty (20) years.1 Tommy was fifteen (15) and seventeen (17) years old at the time of the offenses,…