Commonwealth v. Hocker

SPAIN, Justice.

Following his conviction by a Fayette County jury of first-degree assault and the imposition of a sentence of imprisonment for ten years, the defendant, Allen Hocker, Jr., appealed to the Court of Appeals. A divided panel of that court reversed the conviction and remanded for a new trial, holding that the evidence was insufficient as a matter of law to sustain the conviction. Having granted review, we now reverse the Court of Appeals and affirm the judgment and sentence of the Fayette Circuit Court. In our opinion, the trial court properly denied a motion for a directed verdict…