Daugherty v. Commonwealth

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

JUSTICE NOBLE

The Appellant, Lisa A. Daugherty, shot and killed her husband, Will Phelps. She was convicted of murder and of tampering with physical evidence for hiding the gun used in the shooting. She claims the trial court erred by keeping her from testifying that her husband was a felon, and thus could not legally possess the gun, and that her husband made various statements leading up to and at the time of the shooting. These errors, she claims, undermined her ability to present a cogent defense and thereby infringed her right to due process of law. This Court…