Commonwealth v. Burnette

LEIBSON, Justice.

Ward Burnette and John D. Wolf were convicted in the Franklin Circuit Court of theft by deception and were sentenced to fines of $5,000 for their part in deceiving the Commonwealth into paying $5,435.79 for two unauthorized chartered airplane flights taken in December, 1987. John Kelly was convicted of complicity to theft by deception and sentenced to a fine of $2,500 for his part in promoting the deception. These convictions were reversed by the Court of Appeals. We granted discretionary review and, as there was ample evidence to support the convictions, reverse the Court of…