Legal Opinion

Anderson v. Commonwealth

Kentucky Supreme Court

Decided September 27, 2001No. 1999-SC-0176-MRPublishedCited by 25 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

STUMBO, Justice.

This appeal is based on a jury verdict from the Wayne Circuit Court convicting John Anderson of two counts of first-degree rape, four counts of first-degree sodomy, and one count of sexual abuse of his stepdaughter, C.S.B. The victim testified that Appellant began having sexual relations with her in 1992 when she was ten years old. Anderson was sentenced to twenty years for each rape charge, twenty years for each count of sodomy, and five years for the sexual abuse charge, all to run concurrently. He appealed to this Court as a matter of right.

Appellant raises four issues on…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Eldred v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1995
  2. Barnett v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1992
  3. Otis v. MeadeCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1972
  4. Carwile v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1985
  5. Commonwealth v. CallowayKentucky Supreme Court · 1987

3Cited by25 opinions

  1. Johnson v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2003
  2. Ten Broeck Dupont, Inc. v. BrooksKentucky Supreme Court · 2009
  3. People v. BarnslaterAppellate Court of Illinois · 2007
  4. Bartley v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2013
  5. Metcalf v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2005

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