Owsley v. Commonwealth

COMBS, Judge.

Appellant, Woodrow Owsley, appeals his conviction in the Knott Circuit Court of first-degree sexual abuse. KRS 510.110. Appellant also challenges the constitutional validity of KRS 532.045, which precludes him from probation eligibility for the duration of his five-year sentence.

Owsley was indicted on four counts of first-degree rape, KRS 510.040, as well as the count of first-degree sexual abuse. The victim, K.M., was a minor female, aged ten years at the time of the crime. Owsley was forty-five years old at the time, and is K.M.’s uncle by marriage. A full account of the facts…