Schoenbachler v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by Justice KELLER.

I. INTRODUCTION

A Bullitt County Circuit Court jury found Appellant guilty of Flagrant Nonsupport 1 and fixed his punishment at the minimum prison sentence of one year. At final sentencing, the trial court imposed judgment in accordance with the jury’s verdict. In Appellant’s matter-of-right appeal to the Court of Appeals, he took issue with the sufficiency of the Commonwealth’s evidence. Although Appellant admitted that he had failed to make child support payments that he knew he had been ordered to pay, and further admitted that his child support…