Hall v. Commonwealth

STEPHENS, Chief Justice.

Appellant appeals as a matter of right from his convictions by a jury in Knott Circuit Court on one count of first-degree sodomy and one count of first-degree sexual abuse. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for first-degree sodomy and five years’ imprisonment for first-degree sexual abuse, to be served consecutively. Appellant presents several allegations of error, two of which constitute grounds for reversal.

The facts of the case are the following: T.H., the niece of the appellant, who was six years old at the time of the alleged abuse, told her aunt that her…