Bell v. Commonwealth

CULLEN, Commissioner.

The appellant’s sole contention, on this appeal from a judgment sentencing him to a term of 10 years in the penitentiary pursuant to a verdict convicting him of armed robbery, is that the trial court erred in denying his motion for a mistrial after the prosecuting attorney, on cross-examination of the appellant, undertook to impeach his credibility by asking him: “Have you ever been convicted of a felony?” The appellant’s contention is that under Cotton v. Commonwealth, Ky., 454 S.W.2d 698, the only permissible question is one which asks whether the defendant has been…