Graves v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Justice VENTERS.

Appellant, Perry Graves, appeals as a matter of right from a judgment entered upon a jury verdict by the Monroe Circuit Court convicting him of first degree trafficking in a controlled substance, second or subsequent offense, and sentencing him to twenty years imprisonment. On appeal, he asserts the following arguments: 1) the trial court erred during the guilt phase of his trial, by admitting evidence of other acts of drug trafficking; 2) the trial court deprived him of his right to trial by jury by not requiring the jury to decide if he should be…