Shadoan v. Commonwealth

EDWARD P. HILL, Jr, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered on the verdict of a jury finding appellant guilty of involuntary manslaughter (KRS 435.022(1)) under which his punishment was fixed at 10 years in prison.

Essentially the one and only question presented on this appeal is the competency of a bit of evidence given by the arresting officer which the appellant contends was incompetent, improper and prejudicial under the rule announced in Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 16 L.Ed.2d 694 (1966). This claimed incompetent evidence is contained in the testimony of the…