Boyle v. Commonwealth

WILHOIT, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Fayette Circuit Court sentencing the appellant to ten years’ imprisonment upon his conviction of second-degree manslaughter.

The appellant’s first ground for reversal is that prior to selection of the jury which *712tried the case, the trial judge, sua sponte, informed the panel from which the jury was selected:... that the penalty that they would impose in the case would always be the maximum penalty; that whether the defendant served any days first of all is dependent upon whether or not I grant him probation and that depended upon many…