Moorman v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Justice VENTERS.

Appellant, Semonin T. Moorman, appeals as a matter of right 1 from a judgment entered upon a jury verdict convicting her of first-degree manslaughter and sentencing her to twenty years’ imprisonment.

In this appeal she raises two arguments. First, that her conviction is invalid because one of the assistant Commonwealth’s attorneys involved in her prosecution had not been properly sworn in as a member of the Kentucky bar, and was therefore an unlicensed attorney at the time of trial; and second, that the trial court erred when it disallowed evidence of the…