Whorton v. Commonwealth

PALMORE, Chief Justice.

In Whorton v. Commonwealth, Ky., 570 S.W.2d 627 (1978), we reversed the judgments in this ease on the ground and on the premise that under Taylor v. Kentucky, 436 U.S. 478, 98 S.Ct. 1930, 56 L.Ed.2d 468 (1978), Whorton’s constitutional right of due process had been violated by the trial court’s refusal to instruct the jury on the presumption of innocence. In Kentucky v. Whorton, - U.S. -, 99 S.Ct. 2088, 60 L.Ed.2d 640 (1979), the Supreme Court of the United States reversed that decision and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with its opinion that this…