Davenport v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Justice JOHNSTONE.

Appellant, Lewis Earl Davenport, appeals from a judgment of the McCreary Circuit Court. Following a jury trial, Appellant was found guilty of murder and first-degree robbery. He was sentenced to fifty years’ imprisonment for the murder conviction and received ten years’ imprisonment for the robbery conviction, to be served concurrently. He now appeals as a matter of right, alleging five trial errors: (1) that the trial court erred when it refused to allow defense counsel to cross-examine a witness regarding his probationary status; (2) that defense…