Welborn v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Justice WINTERSHEIMER.

This appeal is from a judgment based on a jury verdict that found Welborn guilty but mentally ill of three counts of first-degree assault and one count of disarming a police officer. He was sentenced to a total of thirty-five years in prison.

The questions presented are whether it was error to submit to the jury three separate charges of first-degree assault; whether it was error to allow the prosecution to play for the jury a video statement made by Welborn to police shortly after the offense; whether it was error to inform the jury during voir…