Hale v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Justice ABRAMSON.

Jeffery Hale was convicted by the Christian Circuit Court of first-degree unlawful transaction with a minor, as prohibited by Kentucky Revised Statute (KRS) 530.064(1) and sentenced to ten years in *843prison. Hale, who was forty-four years old at the time of the alleged offense, was charged with and found guilty of inducing the fourteen-year-old daughter of a recently deceased family friend to have sexual intercourse with him. Hale insists that KRS 580.064, which under the facts of this case constitutes a Class B felony, does not apply unless the…