Stinnett v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Justice NOBLE.

Appellant, Lawrence Robert Stinnett, appeals as a matter of right, Ky. Const. § 110, from a judgment of the Warren Circuit Court convicting him of murder and kidnapping. As a result of his convictions, he was sentenced to a single prison term of life without parole.1

Appellant raises the following arguments: (1) that the trial court erred by failing to dismiss the kidnapping charge pursuant to KRS 509.050, the kidnapping exemption statute; (2) that the trial court erred by instructing the jury on the crime of intentional murder; (3) that the trial court…