Graves v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the

Court by Justice NOBLE.

At a jury trial, Appellant James Darnell Graves was convicted of third-degree burglary, possession of burglary tools, and being a persistent felony offender in the first degree. His five-year sentence for third-degree burglary was enhanced to twenty years’ imprisonment under the persistent felony offender statute, and was run concurrently with his sentence of thirty days for possession of burglar’s tools. On this matter of right appeal, Ky. Const. § 110(2)(b), Appellant argues that the trial court should have granted a mistrial during voir dire when the…