Manns v. Commonwealth

COOPER, Justice.

On March 28, 1997, Appellant Earl O’Neal Manns, then age eighteen, shot and killed Bashawn Wilson during an argument over the outcome of a computer “Play Station” basketball game. Following a one-day trial in the Jefferson Circuit Court on August 25, 1998, Appellant was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for seventeen years. The Court of Appeals affirmed, and we granted discretionary review. The principal issue on appeal is whether it was error to admit evidence at trial of Appellant’s prior juvenile adjudication for…