Overstreet v. Commonwealth

CULLEN, Commissioner.

Donald Dale Overstreet appeals from a judgment which sentenced him to a term of 15 years in the penitentiary pursuant to a verdict finding him guilty of first-degree involuntary manslaughter, under KRS 435.-022(1), in a prosecution arising out of an automobile collision involving Overstreet’s car and another, in which an occupant of the other car was killed. Overstreet’s sole ground for reversal is that the trial court erred in reading to the jury, over his objection, the provisions of subsections (4) and (5) of KRS 189.520, which in substance are that in a prosecution…