Price v. Commonwealth

COOPER, Justice.

On the night of October 31, 1996, Appellant Michael Anthony Price shot and killed his wife, Carol Price, then sexually assaulted his eleven-year-old stepdaughter, L.B. A Hart County Grand Jury subsequently returned this indictment, 96-CR-00056, charging Appellant with murder and rape in the first degree. By a separate indictment, 96-CR-00057, Appellant was charged with seven additional counts of rape in the first degree allegedly perpetrated against L.B.

At the trial of this indictment, Appellant claimed that he shot his wife by accident; and though he did sexually abuse L.B.,…