Snodgrass v. Commonwealth

SPAIN, Justice.

Following a two-day trial on February 1 and 2, 1990, appellant, Jesse Christopher Snodgrass, was convicted by a Daviess County jury of three charges of sodomy and four other acts of sexual misconduct involving four young boys aged eleven to thirteen years. Following the jury’s recommendation, the trial judge sentenced appellant to a total of twenty years’ imprisonment, the minimum permissible punishment under the circumstances.

The incidents occurred between December 23 and 31, 1988, when appellant was twenty years old, at a “clubhouse” located in a pine thicket next to Our Lady…