Legal Opinion
Byrd v. Commonwealth
Kentucky Supreme Court
Decided February 13, 1992No. 90-SC-26-MRPublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WINTERSHEIMER, Justice.
This appeal is from a judgment based on a jury verdict which convicted Byrd of murder and sentenced him to twenty years in prison. Byrd raises 11 assignments of al*274leged error. We will treat each assignment of error in the course of the opinion.
Byrd was charged with the murder by beating the victim to death during the course of a robbery. His first trial ended in a mistrial because the jury was unable to reach a verdict. He was tried again and conviction resulted. The victim died sometime between Noon on January 25 and Midnight on January 26, 1989, as a result of a blow…
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