Burchett v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Justice JOHNSTONE.

As the result of a fatal automobile collision, Appellant, George Burchett, Jr., was convicted by a Green Circuit Court jury of reckless homicide, for which he received a sentence of five years’ imprisonment. Burchett appealed his conviction to the Court of Appeals and that court affirmed. We granted discretionary review to consider the only issue raised on appeal: whether evidence that a defendant smoked marijuana on a daily basis is admissible to prove that he smoked marijuana on the day of the collision. For the reasons discussed below, we hold this…