Wood v. Commonwealth

CLAYTON, Justice.

The appellants, Michael Dean Wood and Everett Paul Smith, Jr., were found guilty of kidnapping and each was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment. We affirm their convictions.

David Davis, the deputy jailer of Warren County, Kentucky, testified at the trial that on the afternoon of March 13, 1977, he was on duty at the Warren County jail and that one of the trusties knocked on the front door and said, “There’s someone sick inside.” He went around the cellblock, where he observed one of the prisoners appeared to be in deep pain. Another prisoner, Jimmy Bass, and appellant Smith…