McNeil v. Commonwealth

OPINION OF THE COURT BY. JUSTICE ABRAMSON

Cedric McNeil appeals as of right from a Judgment of the Jefferson Circuit Court convicting him of first-degree robbery, Kentucky Revised Statute (KRS) 515.020, and first-degree assault, KRS 508.010. In accord with the jury’s recommendations, *861the trial court sentenced McNeil to consecutive maximum terms of ten years for the former and eighteen years for the latter offense. McNeil was accused of stealing a purse from an acquaintance, Donna Wheeler, and of furthering the theft by running over Wheeler’s friend, Candra Rose, with a car. At trial, McNeil…