Bell v. Commonwealth

STEPHENS, Chief Justice.

REVERSING

This is a direct appeal from the judgment of the Garrard Circuit Court which sentenced appellant, David Bell, to eighty years’ imprisonment following a conviction of sodomy in the first degree.

FACTS

David A. Bell was indicted by the Garrard County Grand Jury on February 14,1992 for the offenses of sodomy in the first degree *884and assault in the second degree. The indictment alleged that the appellant forced A.C., the minor child of his live-in girlfriend, to engage in deviate sexual intercourse on or about November 1989. The assault charge, which was later…