Blount v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Justice VENTERS.

Appellant, Malcolm Blount, appeals as a matter of right, Ky. Const. § 110, from a judgment of the Graves Circuit Court convicting him of two counts of first-degree sodomy and two counts of first-degree sexual abuse and sentencing him to twenty years’ imprisonment. The victim of Appellant’s alleged crimes is his step-granddaughter, “Sally,”1 who was under 12 years of age when the abuse allegedly occurred.

The sole issue Appellant raises on appeal is that the trial court erred by allowing testimony from Sally’s mother, and to a lesser extent her father,…