Sherley v. Commonwealth

WADDILL, Commissioner.

Appellant, Robert Sherley, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to imprisonment for five years. KRS 435.020. The sole question raised on the appeal from that conviction is whether the trial court complied with the requirements of RCr 9.66 which in pertinent part are as follows:

“ * * * When a jury composed of both sexes must he kept together, the male members of the jury may be separated from the female members and each sex kept together in charge of an officer of like sex.”

Since the jury impaneled to try appellant included both men and women it is…