Smith v. Commonwealth

OPINION

THOMPSON, Judge.

Martin Dewayne Smith appeals from a judgment of the Fayette Circuit Court following his conditional guilty plea to criminal attempt to commit kidnapping and tampering with physical evidence. For the reasons set forth herein, we affirm.

On February 2, 2006, in the parking lot of a Lexington store, a man approached a woman and, after he was unsuccessful in abducting her, fled the scene.

Thereafter, following an anonymous tip to “Crime Stoppers,” Smith was identified as the assailant who accosted the woman in the parking lot. After being arrested on an unrelated warrant and…