Murphy v. Commonwealth

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

JUSTICE HUGHES

Appellant, Rex Allen Murphy, appeals as a matter of right from a judgment of the Pulaski Circuit Court sentencing him to thirty years’ imprisonment for first-degree sodomy, first-degree sexual abuse, and use of a minor in a sexual performance. Murphy ■ raises seven issues on appeal: 1) the trial court erred by failing to direct a verdict of acquittal for first-degree sodomy and first-degree sexual abuse; 2) the trial court violated double jeopardy when it failed to differentiate between first-degree sodomy and first-degree sexual abuse in the jury…