Wombles v. Commonwealth

SPAIN, Justice.

Ed Wombles, age fifty-one, was convicted by a Clay County jury on six counts of first-degree rape of his eleven-year-old daughter, Lisa. Wombles received a total sentence of forty years.

Lisa was a fifth-grade student enrolled in special education classes at Manchester Elementary School. A social worker, Yern Webb, testified that he had worked with Lisa in 1990. Webb described Lisa as having a level of intelligence lower than her chronological age, that she was “immature,” and that she was incapable of specifically describing events. Webb further stated that Lisa was, however, a…