Thomas v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Justice COOPER.

Appellant, Flaminto Thomas, and his wife, Dellithi Thomas, were convicted by a McCracken Circuit Court jury of criminal abuse in the second degree. KRS 508.110. Appellant was sentenced to three years in prison enhanced to seventeen years upon the jury’s additional verdict that he was a persistent felony offender (PFO) in the first degree. KRS 532.080(3). The Court of Appeals affirmed his criminal abuse conviction but reversed the PFO verdict because the documentation of Appellant’s prior felony convictions in Illinois did not contain the statutorily…