Keeling v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Justice SCOTT.

A Graves Circuit Court jury found Appellant, Derek Keeling, guilty but mentally ill of murder and first-degree assault. Appellant received sentences of life in prison for the murder conviction and twenty years in prison for the assault conviction. He now appeals as a matter of right, Ky. Const. § 110(2)(b), alleging that the trial court erred by: (1) failing to grant his motion to dismiss; (2) failing to give jury instructions consistent with this Court’s precedent; (3) finding him competent to stand trial; (4) failing to instruct the jury on assault under…