Woodard v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice LAMBERT.

Appellant, James Woodard, was convicted of second-degree assault and of being a persistent felony offender in the second degree. Appellant was sentenced to twenty years imprisonment. This appeal is as a matter of right.1 Appellant assigns the following errors: (1) the trial court erred in admitting testimony of his name change, use of various aliases, and instances of unrelated criminal acts; (2) the trial court erred by not granting a mistrial following the testimony of a police witness that Michelle Riggs seemed to be protecting Appellant; (3)…